Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcement of the British decision, Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Smirnovsky stormed into the Home Secretary's office, demanding the author's return. Calllaghan refused. Two days later, Smirnovsky called on Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart and asked that Soviet diplomats be allowed to see Kuznetsov. But Kuznetsov refused to meet with his countrymen. Instead, he wrote a declaration of his reasons for leaving and three letters: one to the Soviet government, another to the Communist Party, and a third to the Writers' Union (see box on following page). His eloquent words provided startling and intriguing insight into the condition...
...because my earnings were their only means of support. I beg you not to confiscate their possessions and not to deprive them of their accommodation. I swear that they knew nothing at all. I have informed the Soviet embassy in London that I have not the slightest desire to meet any Soviet official. I request you to send instructions to the embassy that I should be left in peace. Strictly personally, for my own part, I have decided that if ever it should be possible for me to meet any Soviet officials or to offer them my hand, it will...
...intercourse. One devotes oneself to the simultaneous consumption of food and people. To be the only guests to dinner is normally considered less flattering than to be invited with many others, perhaps because it suggests that your time is at such a low price that you are content to meet a couple of people at a time...
...arrived at the train station to start taping in Nashville last May, the performers were paraded ceremoniously through town atop mule-drawn hay wagons. "We felt like such goddam fools riding down the main streets," recalls Co-Producer Frank Pep-piatt. "We thought there would be throngs to meet us, but we ended up waving to each other...
...simplest policy decisions now meet extensive delays. For example, a regulation that would apply the requirements of the Truth in Lending Act to margin loans has been debated since May without a decision, and no final action has been taken on a proposed rule regarding corporate names. Under the rule, a company's registration statement to sell stock would be deemed misleading if the company's name contained such words as "missile" or "space" but the firm did no work in those fields...