Word: metting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swampy paddyfield 50 miles northwest of Saigon, five unarmed American officers faced Viet Cong envoys dressed in grubby khakis during a 24-hour Christmas Day truce. Their futile talks, lasting two hours and 22 minutes, were supposed to deal with the release of three G.I.s. The Communists, who met with the Americans beneath a Viet Cong flag, seemed principally concerned with obtaining some form of U.S. recognition of the National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong. The American prisoners remained in captivity after it was all over. The Viet Cong want another meeting in the same paddy...
Still missing at week's end was Krist's accomplice, Ruth Eisemann Schier, 26, a linguist and graduate student at the University of Miami's Marine Science Institute. She met Krist, an escaped convict working at the institute under the alias George Deacon, during a student-faculty cruise to Bermuda in September. He drew her into his scheme. As Krist's estranged wife recalled last week: "Gary doesn't want to lead a mediocre life...
Amidst the exchange of insults, Vance and his North Vietnamese counterpart, Colonel Ha Van Lau, met but got nowhere on the issue of a conference table. Hanoi, in fact, has rivaled Saigon in its fussing over the point. For both, the seemingly puerile bickering about furniture represents a vital issue of sovereignty. The Communists are determined to bring the N.L.F. to the table as an equal; Saigon just as adamantly refuses...
Married. James A. Pike, 55, iconoclastic Episcopal cleric who resigned as Bishop of the California Diocese in 1966 to pursue philosophical research; and Diane Kennedy, 30, who met Pike two years ago in Berkeley and collaborated with him on his most recent book, The Other Side, an account of his spiritualistic adventures in trying to contact his dead son; she for the first time, he for the third (his first marriage was annulled in 1941, his second ended in divorce); in what Pike termed an "ecumenical Christian service" at a Methodist church in San Jose, Calif...
...conceived by its originators in the early 1950s, pay TV was to bring to every living room Broadway musicals, operas from the Met, heavyweight-title fights-all for $1 or so a show. There would be ballet, first-run and art movies never seen on TV, classical drama and the boldest of the off-Broadway experiments-the sort of minority programming that network executives claim is uneconomical. But that vision did not reckon with the relentless opposition of movie exhibitors and the broadcasting lobbies in Washington. Over the years the TV industry kept insisting, as the National Association of Broadcasters...