Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin hurried home after two lengthy talks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk seemed to lend credence to them (though the Russians insisted that Dobrynin had gone home to see his ailing father-in-law). In Warsaw, U.S. Ambassador to Poland John Gronouski met with Chinese diplomats for the first time in seven months, but no news was permitted to filter from behind the closed doors. In Hanoi, Cambodia's Foreign Minister Prince Norodom Phourissara held talks with high North Vietnamese officials...
...years. It took Johnson's persuasiveness to induce him to stay through preparation of the new budget. Schultze, as the President knew, was the Administration's most effective economic spokesman on Capitol Hill. Even Wilbur Mills describes him as "one of the most brilliant economists I ever met...
...What met his eye last week was not a paucity of happenings but 1967's "ten grossest excesses." It was a brilliant, unpartisan, vindictive selection. Charles de Gaulle was there, of course, along with Mao and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The 1967 football season, hanging on "like a summer cold," qualified. So did Jacqueline Kennedy magazine covers and the movie Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest...
Mehta's bookings for 1968, for example, call for 22 weeks of concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, three operas at the Met-among them Tosca, which he conducted last week-one opera on Italian television, five recording sessions, and guest appearances at five festivals and with five other orchestras...
...subcommittee--which met with representatives of the Harvard Undergraduate Council and Harvard Policy Committee--decided to retain these units largely on the results of HPC-HUC and independent polls. The polls showed that students living in these units and off-campus overwhelmingly prefer their accommodations to living in the Houses...