Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tuesday morning Ford was to have an audience with Emperor Hirohito, who planned to honor him that evening with a formal banquet at the Imperial Palace. On both Tuesday and Wednesday, Ford and Tanaka expected to spend several hours together at the Akasaka Palace, discussing mutual defense arrangements, trade, relations with Communist China, inflation and the energy crisis. In addition, Tanaka sought a promise that the U.S. would not restrict food sales to Japan in the future, while Ford hoped to receive assurances that the Japanese Diet would ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. After reciprocating with a dinner for Hirohito...
...only three Harvard runners competed in the race, the Crimson was not counted in the overall team competition, where a minimum of five runners is required. Captain Jim Keefe, freshman Stein Rafto, and senior Bill Muller ran for individual honor in the meet, but none of the trio fared well...
PRESIDENT BOK flew down to New York last week to speak at a NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund dinner given in honor of John W. Davis. Because Davis has been a pioneer in the modern struggle to give black people equal rights in the educational system, Bok said he wanted his speech to offer an accounting of the way Harvard has tried to mete out justice in its treatment of black. Considering that the Bok administration has never had a very easy time dealing with minorities, a general stocktaking such as the one the NAACP was privy to last...
...Viet Nam, for so many elections a burning issue, seemed barely to touch voter consciousness this time out. Four former P.O.W.s who ran for office each met with defeat. South Dakota Republican Leo K. Thorsness, a Medal of Honor holder who spent six years in a North Vietnamese P.O.W. camp, seemed to threaten Senator George McGovern at the outset, but faded as the campaign wore on. In California, 32-year-old Republican David Rehmann, six years a P.O.W., lost his bid for Congress to Santa Ana Mayor Jerry Patterson. In Georgia, Republican Quincy Collins, 43, an ex-Air Force colonel...
...door again, but on Thursday the questioning was accompanied by only a little torture. And then came help. U.S. Consul Richard Brown in Recife was finally given permission to see me. My friends had alerted him to my disappearance. It took him three days to get Brazilian authorities to honor an international agreement granting foreigners the right to see diplomatic representatives of their country. On Friday Ambassador John H. Crimmins officially protested my treatment to the Brazilian Foreign Office in Brasilia. After five more days, Brown managed to get Colonel Meziat to provide a mattress for me; in seven days...