Word: interpretions
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When Kennedy ended his 45-minute address, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield leaped to his feet. Apprehensive over how Hanoi would interpret the speech, he assured that it did not represent "a break between the Administration and the Senator from New York." He was almost alone in that opinion. For one thing, Kennedy urged a halt in the bombing on the strength of a tentative promise from Hanoi to negotiate; Johnson insists on some solid reciprocal move from the North-not a mere promise. For another, Kennedy, recalling Prime Minister Wilson's claim that "one single act of trust" during...
...expectant mothers in the prenatal clinic. "I'm ready to give my course," I announced to the head midwife. The waiting room was crowded with silent women holding bottles. The midwife, an educated woman, smiled noncomitally. "I'll talk in French, of course; all I need is someone to interpret," I continued...
...boot its errors almost as far as its successes. There was the Bay of Pigs. CIA failed to interpret properly the consistent East German warnings that preceded the Berlin Wall. The agency made a foolish attempt to bribe security police in Singapore...
...Franklin Konigsberg of New York City, who own Sylvie, are supposed to take Fahlstrom's original arrangement of these items on the panel and rearrange them to suit their personality or mood. Explains Fahlstrom: "I want them to participate in it, to interpret it. In the present situation, people want to discover themselves. They live less and less by a set of dogmas, political or religious. They probe the experience and standards to which they are exposed and take only what is useful to them...
...believe that continued piecemeal devastation of the North could, in the indefinite future, bring the enemy to his knees-and ruin Ho Chi Minh's bargaining position. But if this is true, then the President is disingenuous when he predicts meaningful concessions from both sides. North Vietnam could only interpret this attitude as a valid U.S. desire for total victory...