Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Late to Bed. The dispute between France and Britain over the future of NATO and the Common Market clouded all the President's efforts to renew communications with Europe. The war in Viet Nam also was very much on his mind. Even as he took off from Washington's Andrews Air Force Base, he was being informed of fresh Communist attacks and U.S. uncertainty over how the new offensive would affect the still desultory Paris peace talks (see THE WORLD...
Politically, Saud had also had his troubles in recent years. Forced from his throne in Riyadh by his brother, who now rules as King Feisal, he never gave up his hopes of returning. In late 1966, for instance, Saud left Athens for Cairo, planning to work with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser to overthrow Feisal. But the alliance produced few results, and Saud was back in Athens by the following autumn...
...late 1940s, the Abstract Expressionists were admired by only a few hardy critics, loathed by rival painters, and ignored by virtually every museum and collector in the country. With his fellows, De Kooning hung out in grimy Greenwich Village cafeterias, endlessly debating the new esthetic and just as endlessly revising the canvases in his studio. De Kooning sought to capture on canvas the continuing essence of the creative act of painting itself. To do this, he jettisoned polished finish in favor of apparently raw brush strokes, which in reality were painstakingly executed and frequently reworked. On another level, he strove...
...spectacle probably should be called "Son of Roller Derby." Seltzer, 36, is the son of Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, the man who dreamed up the Roller Derby and turned it into a national craze in the late 1940s. In those days, TV programming became so saturated with helmeted skaters that the sport suffered a severe case of overexposure and soon faded to a few games a year, mostly in California...
...ritual of most British television commentators is as fixed and inflexible as the Nelson Monument, and it calls for a straight face and unwavering tone before even the obvious follies of the mighty. The broadcaster who established the form was the late Richard Dimbleby, the eloquent voice of Britain whose specialty was such sonorous events as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Last week Dimbleby the Second - Richard's 30-year-old son David - revised the ritual for the BBC. To mark Richard Nixon's visit to Britain, he gave...