Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambodia, Laos is the buffer that permits it a capricious neutralism. To firmly anti-Communist Thailand on the west, Laos is a geographic and ethnic neighbor and, if the Communists should take it over, a potential threat. To the U.S., Laos is primarily something to deny to the Communists, and just about as inconvenient a testing ground as can be found...
Gallic Grace. Throughout its history, as now, Laos has been buffeted by powerful neighbor states. It has been invaded so many times by the Vietnamese that the present King habitually refers to the threat from the north not as the Communist but as "the Annamese problem." About 1700, Laos split into three kingdoms, run by rival royalty, and it was still split two centuries later when the French, the last and by all odds the gentlest of the conquerors, arrived in 1893, seeking a buffer state against Siam and British Burma. The French looked around and proclaimed Laos living proof...
...family income. Working at first for a fee of $10 per baby-or sometimes for a side of bacon or a barrel of peas-Kate delivered about 900 children over the years and never, she boasts proudly, lost a mother. But she created some problems for Leontyne : "The neighbor kids would say, 'You didn't come the right way; your mamma carries babies in her black bag.' " Although Leontyne has "retired her," Kate Price delivered a child shortly before traveling to New York for the Met debut, returned promptly to Laurel because another child...
...determination is undergirded by a powerful religious faith (she is the granddaughter of two Methodist ministers). She talks about "the Omnipotent" as naturally as if he were her neighbor. "I never go onstage," says Leontyne, "without saying a prayer-sometimes an extra prayer before arias like D'amor sull'ali rosee in Trovatore or O patria mia in Aïda." And the debut? "I just stood there in the wings and thought: 'Dear Jesus, you got me into this...
...Swiss government cherishes its neutrality as a Saint Bernard guards its brandy cask. Last week, after scratching noisily and growling discreetly, the Swiss finally got across the point that they really did not want President Kennedy to appoint his old Palm Beach neighbor and friend, Millionaire Broker Earl E. T. Smith, as U.S. Ambassador to Bern. Smith's qualifications for the post were hardly self-evident. But Switzerland also had a technical objection: Smith's one venture into diplomacy was as Dwight Eisenhower's ambassador to Batista's Cuba; his appointment would embarrass the Swiss...