Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book of world issues is thick," says one State Department man. "They're going to require decisions." Everywhere the new Administration looks, there are banked fires that could crackle into life at any moment. In the Mideast, the Arab states threaten war if Israel goes ahead next spring with its planned diversion of the River Jordan's waters. In Laos, the fighting between the Communist Pathet Lao and the neutralists could flare any time. In Brazil, runaway inflation threatens the nation with chaos. There are incipient crises in Chile and Haiti, Cambodia and Malaysia, and a shooting...
...with far-left causes would touch off a violent reaction in the U.S. and freeze the tentative thaw that Kennedy was encouraging. Anxious to size up Johnson in a face-to-face meeting, the Russians have already begun pressuring for a summit, possibly next spring in Stockholm. For the moment, Johnson wants no part of it. Neither does Rusk, unless some progress is made on such specific items as the opening of consular offices in several U.S. and Soviet cities or the establishment of air routes. But the British, who seem ready to go to the summit every Monday, Wednesday...
Finally, within hours of President Kennedy's assassination, Johnson called in U.S. Ambassador to Finland Carl Rowan, 38, for a chat. Since Johnson's problems of the moment hardly included the diplomatic climate in Helsinki, it seemed certain that Rowan was getting a job offer. A Negro and a onetime reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, where he won awards for his reportage of U.S. racial tensions, Rowan was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in 1961, was a Johnson adviser on the Vice President's travels abroad. Speculation had it that Press Secretary Pierre...
...surrounded by a five-service military honor guard, was never to be opened because the President had been deeply disfigured. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield fought through sobs to read a eulogy that, although well-meaning, was cruel in its emotion: "There was the sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands...
...moment that the President of the U.S. was gunned down, Ruby, a fleshy, balding bachelor of 52, was sitting at a desk in the display advertising department of the Dallas Morning News, working on an advertisement designed to promote the outstanding virtues of his droop-bosomed Carousel Club strippers. Someone came in with the news of the assassination...