Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It seemed curious that the Kremlin had allowed him to leave. One theory had it that Tarsis' trip had been meant to distract attention from the trial of Soviet Writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky (TIME, Feb. 18). According to a more ingenious version, he had promised the KGB...
The occasion was Unity Day, the annual observance that oddly celebrates Egypt's short-lived union with Syria. Warming to his subject, Nasser accused Saudi Arabia's King Feisal of financing a plot against him last summer, and of trying to form a conservative, anti-Nasser "Islamic alliance...
His cigars are the best. When he sensed the shift of politics in Cuba, he bought 3,000 of his favorite Upmann Montecristos at 75é apiece, and had them stored in the humidor in Manhattan's "21" Club, from which he draws, in miserly fashion, enough for two or three...
O'Brien plainly enjoys speechmaking and knows he is good at it. Not only can he drop a line expertly, but he knows just how long to continue before giving way to the laughs or--on occasion--the applause of the audience.
Someone in the room--they were all leftists--insisted that American foreign policy wasn't nearly so offensive as O'Brien described it. And O'Brien, who can be dead serious when the occasion warrants, said simply that "Not being American, I can be more objective."