Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five-Minute Glow. There was some question about whether any official welcome would show up; at the last moment Premier Chou En-lai appeared. Kosygin stepped quickly down the ramp, shook Chou's hand, then hugged him; Chou managed a tight smile. Mumbled Kosygin: "It is always a great pleasure." The glow lasted five minutes. Then Chou departed, leaving the Russian Premier to drive unescorted and unheralded to the Ying Ping Kuan guesthouse, where copies of a recent Peking People's Daily carried three acid poems of greeting to Kosygin. A sample...
...survival of the British nation and the hymn that symbolized the endurance of the American Union-the suddenly mingled echoes of Agincourt and Antietam-served to remind the world of a kinship that goes deeper than shifting alliances and new patterns of power. It was an Anglo-Saxon moment that could not have been lost on Charles de Gaulle, among others, and its impact was lessened only by the absence of the President of the United States...
During an audience in London last week with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Queen Elizabeth II signed a formal proclamation giving Canada its own national flag after 252 years under British colors. It should have been a moment of pride for Pearson. In 21 months of difficult minority rule, his accomplishments, besides the new maple-leaf flag, include armed forces integration, improved federal-provincial relations, the Columbia River Treaty with the U.S. -while the economy has continued strong and growing. But Mike Pearson is doing very little pointing with pride these days. A series of embarrassing scandals cloud and threaten...
...ownership: "Isn't my orchestra wonderful? Do you know my Ravel, my Tchaikovsky, my Brahms?" All the same, Piatigorsky asks: "How is it that a man who never conducted or studied conducting is capable of giving an acceptable performance without warning and on the spur of the moment? No one can expect a comparable feat on any instrument...
...tonished Gothic glassmakers. These new, iridescent walls of glass lend a ripple of color to otherwise oatmeal-grey concrete. The glassmakers must work hand in hand with the architect. Says France's best-known glass designer, Gabriel Loire, 60: "We do not come in at the last moment just to fill in holes...