Word: metting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization last met scarcely five months ago, it hardly seemed worth the trip to Iceland. As Secretary-General Manlio Brosio recalled before the ministers gathered last week in NATO's bleak new heaquarters outside Brussels: "Hopes for détente were so high that they tended to put in doubt the very necessity of a common alliance." That was not the mood in Brussels. In the interim between the semiannual sessions, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia had shattered all illusions of an imminent accommodation with the Russians. Gone were the pleasant...
...concern-and of some of the reasons for it-took place last week in Washington. At their regular semiannual conference, the 235 Catholic bishops of the U.S. found themselves the target of a bizarre series of demonstrations by dissident priests and laymen. On the day before the bishops met, 3,500 laymen rallied at the Mayflower hotel in support of 41 local priests who had been disciplined by Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle for criticizing Humanae Vitae. The keynote speaker...
Married. Barbara Anne Eisenhower, 19, Ike's granddaughter; and Fernando Echavarria-Uribe, 25, a Colombian insurance executive whom she met on a 1966 visit to Medellin, Colombia; in a simple ceremony attended by some 150 guests, including Grandmother Mamie and Pat Nixon; in Valley Forge, Pa., thereby stealing a march on her brother David and Julie Nixon, whose wedding is planned for December...
...says the clean-cut lad to his pretty blonde companion, "it's been quite a week. I met you on Monday, I fell in love with you on Tuesday, I was unfaithful on Wednesday, we killed a guy on Thursday-and the week isn't even over yet." By the time the week, and Pretty Poison ends, the young man is in stir, Sue Ann is answering some rather pointed questions from the police, and the viewer will have seen one of the nicest, nastiest little crime films to come out of Hollywood in years...
...less to stockholders, who would have to vote final approval. With a wary eye out for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is campaigning for ever earlier disclosure of corporate news, the top men of the two companies originally announced their discussions only seven days after they had first met over the embryonic plan...