Word: import
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some prominent Negroes saw the wedding as an event of major social import. James Meredith proclaimed it "perhaps the most significant thing to date in Government to affect in a favorable way the racial situation in the Linked States." "To me," said John Johnson, publisher of Ebony, "the marriage is a measure of America's maturity, and it might help us in the eyes of the world." Judge Vaino Spencer, a Los Angeles municipal court judge who viewed the marriage both as a Negro and a woman, observed: "That two young, attractive, well-educated people, both from such nice...
Died. Ernest Henderson, 70, co-founder and for 30 years boss of Sheraton Hotels, world's largest chain; of a heart attack; in Boston. Sparely built and quiet, Henderson and his Harvarc roommate, Robert Moore, started oui in 1919 with a small import and radio business, then during the Depression gambled $10,000 to buy a faltering Boston investment firm; by taking advantage of low prices, they gobbled up properties that totaled $30 million by 1939-including Boston's Sheraton, which became the namesake of an evergrowing chain of businessmen-oriented hotels that today numbers...
What about interdicting Russian and Chinese supplies to Hanoi by closing North Viet Nam's ports, notably Haiphong? That, too, argued McNamara, would not work. North Viet Nam imports some 5,800 tons a day, some 4,700 tons of it through Haiphong's port. Military equipment makes up only 550 tons daily in imports, and "little if any" of it comes in by sea. Haiphong is a "convenience rather than a necessity" for imports, and even if all 400 miles of North Vietnamese coast could be interdicted, "North Viet Nam would still be able to import over...
...Levin melodrama about medical ethics, with Burl Ives, Screen Actor Keir Dullea (David and Lisa) and George C. Scott as director. From Britain, David Merrick is bringing a sure conversation piece: Playwright Tom Stoppard's existentialist upending of Hamlet, titled Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Another West End import is the adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel about a slightly bonkers Edinburgh schoolmarm, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. The title role, perfected by Vanessa Redgrave, now goes to Australian-born Zoe Caldwell. Arriving more belatedly from Britain is Harold Pinter's 1958 "comedy of menace...
...Tree, a parent, Anthony Quayle, hopes to prove himself hipper than the kids. The same goes for Jean Arthur, back onstage at 61, in Richard Chandler's The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake. A household mutiny is also the theme of Keep It in the Family, a London import featuring Maureen O'Sullivan. Another West End hit making the passage: Terence Frisby's There's a Girl in My Soup, concerning a lady-killing culinary expert (Gig Young...