Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be interesting to note whether future historians refer to this decade as the Sexties or the Sicksties...
...story making the rounds here: There was this surfer sitting on his board off Santa Monica one day, when a bottle floated by. A note inside said: "You have been granted three wishes." He thought "sheez," but decided to give it a try. So he wished for a Cadillac convertible-and boingg-there it was on the beach. He thought "crazy," and wished for enough $100 bills to fill it. And shazam-it was filled. He started on a third wish-should it be women, fame? These he could buy. So he decided to save the third wish, and drove...
...scheduled news conference?the first full-dress, televised session he had held in four months?and announced: "I have sent a message informing Hanoi that the date of May 10 and the site of Paris are acceptable to the U.S." He added somberly: "I must, however, sound a cautionary note. This is only the very first step. There are many, many hazards and difficult days ahead...
...resolve one issue and one issue only: whether the U.S. intends to call a complete, unconditional halt to its bombing of the North. Only after Washington agrees to do so, Hanoi has persistently maintained, will it then go on to formal negotiations with a full agenda. But in its note to Washington last week, Hanoi significantly altered its wording; now, it said, it "is of the view that the formal talks should be held immediately." Possibly, Ho now intends to telescope the talks...
Autumn Leaves. Taking note of the growing disquiet, newly appointed United Nations Ambassador George Ball warned in a tough speech that it would be "a mistake to expect that anything can be gained by unilateral concessions, or that a show of weakness will make a negotiation go more swiftly, or even go at all." Addressing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ball declared: "I find it both stupid and unattractive when a handful of our countrymen, who have read little history or have not understood what they have read, engage in public self-flagellation, declaring in sanctimonious tones that American policy...