Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preparations for the first family wedding in the White House in 53 years engulfed the presidential menage. Pastry chefs put the finishing touches on a five-tiered, 5-ft.-tall pound cake topped by a spun-sugar basket. White House florists kept a close eye on the white roses that will fill the basket. Calligraphers, their labors done, studied their handiwork on 500 invitations and "carriage cards" (for parking assignments). While aides carefully clocked the whole ceremony in advance, Lynda Bird John son underwent final fittings of the white faille wedding gown created for her by Mod Couturier Geoffrey Beene...
...strong Greek tie to the island, announced that it had reached agreement with Turkey without waiting for Makarios to make up his mind. In Ankara, the government of Premier Siileyman Demirel became impatient at the delay. The Turks, whose navy maneuvered earlier in the week off the Cyprus coast, kept their armed forces in a high state of preparedness, ready to invade Cyprus and strike across the Thracian plain at Greece...
...back, hurled from prepared positions, put to flight and slaughtered in huge numbers. Their setbacks have been so costly, U.S. experts reckoned, that they would need time to recover from their huge losses of both weaponry and men. Yet the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies have just kept coming on, and their persistence and unpredictability have created some of the war's most bitter fighting. Instead of withdrawing and licking their wounds, the Communists last week launched another series of attacks. At the same time, the official North Vietnamese army newspaper promised that fighting in the South...
...rigid ways set him apart somewhat from the new church. Yet he enjoyed his greatest triumph when he played host to Pope Paul VI in 1965-the first time that any Pope had set foot in the Western Hemisphere. The cardinal had grown feeble in recent years, but he kept up his round of appearances at dinners and parades. It was appropriate that just a few hours before he died he had stopped in at two dinners at the Waldorf-Astoria, including one to raise funds for Spanish Harlem...
...Brien, Andrew Kopkind and Chomsky, who reflect the opinions of the Review's principal founder, Jason Epstein, and its editor, Robert Silvers. "I wanted to write critical reviews," says Coser, a professor of sociology at Brandeis, "not the kind of demolition jobs they asked for. They kept telling me to sharpen the knife more." Like the Review, Coser opposes the war in Viet Nam and considers him self a member in good standing of the left." But in becoming more extremist in its politics," he says, "the Review has taken a very narrow, destructive line...