Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ready for Tahiti. Less philosophical about the ambassador's phantom candidacy were Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller. Goldwater, campaigning in California, let fly at a San Francisco news conference: "With all due respect to Mr. Lodge, whom I consider a good friend of mine, it would be impossible to sell him to the Republican Party after his performance in 1960. If he or Rockefeller had worked just half as hard as the rest of us worked, Richard Nixon would be in the White House today." What did Barry think of Lodge's refusal to come home? "This...
...London's Empire Ballroom. Also present for the loudest cheers of the evening: the Duke of Edinburgh, who struck an I-want-to-hold-your-hand pose with Ringo while flashbulbs plopped like jelly beans. Then the talk turned to books. "I'll swap you one of mine for one of yours," said Author Philip (Seabirds in Southern Waters) to Author John Lennon (In His Own Write). Gulped Lennon: "Surely...
...Your place or mine...
...only two other people in the small room are Frank Ryan, an old friend of mine who now lives mostly in Madrid, and Mrs. Christina Austin, who is the lady whose name was mentioned with Mr. Ford's prior to and during the divorce. We are seated and settled in before the incredible coincidence is discovered, and then it is Mrs. Ford who has the poise to take charge. 'This had to happen some time,' she whispers...
...Though huge (362,688 sq. mi.) and harshly beautiful, the country was not wealthy. Average income was $55 a year, and fully half of its exports were in three crops: sisal, cotton and coffee. Tanganyika's mineral wealth was scanty, consisting of some gold and the Williamson diamond mine near Lake Victoria in the north. With its game-thick Serengeti Plains aswarm with trophy heads, and soaring Mount Kilimanjaro to attract all the Hemingway buffs, it had tourist potential...