Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Milestones [July 14] reports that Ronald Searle has married British Novelist Monica Stirling. This is incorrect; I have never met Mr. Searle. He has, I believe, married another Monica Stirling, who is a stage designer. I would be grateful if you would clear up this confusion, as it must be as troublesome to Mr. and Mrs. Searle as to myself...
...HOWEVER MUCH I MAY ENJOY HER BOOKS, I HAVE NEVER MET MISS MONICA STIRLING, BRITISH NOVELIST, IN MY LIFE AND I AM CERTAINLY NOT MARRIED...
...return, McNamara gave the President a generally optimistic report on the war. Claims that the war was stalemated were "ridiculous," he said. On the pressing question of manpower, he said that requirements could be met without increasing draft calls or extending the one-year tours of duty for men assigned to Viet Nam. "I think some more U.S. military personnel will be required," he said. "I am not sure how many. I am certain of one thing: that we must use more effectively the personnel that are presently there...
...exterminator worried about state regulation of his trade. A banker wanted more state deposits. A trucker complained about the weights and measures system at highway truck stations. One by one, the Arkansans recited their problems to their Governor, who met them privately, took notes, offered explanations. Incessantly mopping his broad face in the summer heat, Winthrop Rockefeller for four weeks has been roaming his adopted state, from the northeast, where the Ozark foothills blend into the Mississippi River flatlands, to the southwest plains, where watermelon is king. Last week he toured the Central Valley, a region studded with pulp...
Horrifying Thing. For the first time since the war began, a sizable number of Arab leaders met last week in a series of whirling minisummits to discuss "nullifying the effects of Zionist aggression." First, Algerian President Houari Boumediene flew into Cairo and excited Cairo crowds with a shrill cry for an immediate resumption of the war with Israel. He was shortly joined in Cairo by Jordan's King Hussein, who privately pleaded for some sort of accommodation with Israel-but got nowhere with his fellow Arabs. After he flew home to Amman, the leaders of the Arab left...