Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following morning-and again got up before 7. The fatigue was noticeable in his face, but the President kept up his schedule. Chief on his list of visitors last week was Italy's slight, white-haired President Antonio Segni, 72. There were no problems of great moment to discuss; indeed, Segni addressed a joint session of Congress with the warmth and good will of an old and valued friend, and his private chats with the President were filled with assurances of mutual loyalty...
Trouble with Layering. "Inside the department, our principal problem is layering. When I read a telegram coming in in the morning, it poses a very specific question, and the moment I read it I know what the answer must be. But that telegram goes on its appointed course into the bureau and through the office and down to the desk. Then it goes from the action officer back up through the department to me a week or ten days later, and if it isn't the answer that I knew to be the answer, then I change...
Only for a brief, early moment was there a flare of hope for quick settlement. After four days of talks, OAS mediators announced that Panama's Foreign Minister Galileo Solis and U.S. Special Envoy Edwin M. Martin had reached what sounded like an encouraging agreement. Under the arrangement, Panama would resume diplomatic relations with the U.S. "as quickly as possible," then within 30 days both countries would sit down to review "all existing matters" of conflict. But not long after the communique was broadcast, everything came unstuck. Claiming victory, Chiari announced that the U.S. was committed to renegotiate...
...probably will, since a new show-biz circuit is open to her. She has a twinkle of accomplishment in her eye when she remembers that during her first go at the Palladium "my name, it was down amongst the wines and spirits-the way it is here at the moment...
...that time Crane had added his vote to those of four independents to give Vellucci a 5-4 majority. But Councillor Bernard Goldberg switched his vote away from Vellucci at the last moment to deprive him of victory...