Word: nyet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Children. It is not easy for just any dog to get into most countries. In Ireland, Great Britain and Hawaii, a dog must spend four to six months in quarantine before admittance. The U.S.S.R. gives dogs a flat nyet. And in Australia, if the dog has not resided in Ireland or Mother England for at least six months, it is destroyed on arrival. But in places like Italy, France, West Germany and Spain, all that is required for admission is such simple things as a veterinarian's certificate, plus a record of antirabies shots...
...Grable in Las Vegas, Carol Channing in Los Angeles), the Dollies are multiplying infectiously. The overseas form is Mary Martin, and Producer David Merrick thought that his globe-trotting troupe of Hello, Dolly! was in just the right shape to send to Russia as a gesture of cultural amity. "Nyet!" gestured back the Kremlin, obscurely protesting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Then the man who's most involved in Viet Nam took over. Lyndon Johnson phoned Merrick at 5 a.m. one foggy dawn in Tokyo, where that same evening Mary brought down the house at the opening of Haro...
...Rudolf Nureyev, 27, ballet's temperamental Tartar, ever heard of Jimmy Durante? "Nyet," muttered Rudi. They didn't get to know each other much better during the Hollywood taping of an ABC television special to be shown in October. "How about dat!" marveled proboscidiferous Durante, 72, as he watched Nureyev exercising for 40 minutes before his performance. "He takes all dat time to get ready to dance? Me-I start in cold." Fascinated, Jimmy whispered: "He's got awful long hair, too. Dat ain't a wig, is it? He's got a big nose...
...friendship between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Yet in Tbilisi, Communist marchers repeatedly slowed their procession to applaud members of the Cleveland Orchestra, peering like conventioneers from the windows of the Hotel Tbilisi. As one Tbilisian put it, inviting the musicians to join him in a drink: "Viet Nam, nyet...
Economically Screwy. The Russians, said MacRae, "did us really proud" in setting up interviews on economic problems, but they growled nyet to requests for a tour of Moscow's auto factory, a visit to Kazakhstan's troubled "virgin lands" program, a trip to Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). "At Gosplan," said MacRae, "they were deliberately stonewalling us on some questions. We could see some of the younger Russians growing restive when they had to sit and listen silently to the older men give us evasive answers...