Word: pets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican Republic. Backed by a stubborn general strike in the streets, the middle-of-the-road National Civic Union (U.C.N.) demanded the disappearance of the last vestiges of Trujilloism. The two most conspicuous Trujillo vestiges-Armed Forces Boss Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria and Trujillo's pet President Joaquin Balaguer-as stubbornly resisted vanishing...
...promoter ticked off one colleague's: "He plays the Russian bit. He always has somebody doing the squat dance or auctioning off a painting by a 90-year-old grand duchess." Struck by sudden inspiration, one promoter saved a recent ball (for Society Girl Gregg Dodge's pet charity, Girls Town of Mt. Plymouth, Fla.) by billing it as a Twist party, and some of the most distinguished names in the Social Register happily rushed to the Four Seasons restaurant to gyrate uninhibitedly for a clean cause. No charity ball can afford to be without a celebrity...
...line ecumenists were swallowing hard at the prospect, and the political activists were far from happy about what the Russian Orthodox delegates might do to some of their pet resolutions. Visser 't Hooft fully understands their position: "I know that to bring in the Russian church is to bring in new problems. It will be more difficult to take those positions on international questions which we have taken in the past. We believe, however, that we simply have to accept that difficulty and seek to overcome...
...Visser 't Hooft's pet projects after the war was the creation of an Ecumenical Institute in Switzerland for the training of leaders in the church unity movement. In the U.S. one evening, at dinner with Financiers Thomas W. Lamont and John D. Rockefeller Jr., he described the plan to Rockefeller, who replied: "You must ask for more money." Rockefeller later contributed about $1,000,000 to set up the Ecumenical Institute at Boissy, which last year graduated 36 students of 23 nationalities from its 20-week course...
...space business. The 5-ft. 7-in. Engstrom-he is called "Shorty" by his intimates, including even the 5-ft. 8-in. Sarnoff-got his University of Minnesota degree (class of '23) in electrical engineering, has long been associated with developing RCA's color television, a pet Sarnoff project. A top contender for the presidency back in 1957 when Burns was brought in from Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Engstrom is a skilled corporate strategist, had already been given all of Burns's responsibilities except supervision of the National Broadcasting Co. weeks before the formal changeover was announced...