Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other scattered protests along the way, including a group of chanting demonstrators in Sydney who burned Ky in effigy. But Ky's candor and charm largely disarmed his critics, especially among the press. When one newsman jibed at Ky's renowned skill with a pistol, the Premier coolly offered to set up a match: "We'll shoot for a case of Australian beer." A Communist reporter who disputed Ky's account of conditions in South Viet Nam was invited on a Ky-conducted tour of his nation, and quickly accepted...
Signing autographs, shaking hands, pinching babies' cheeks and chatting with admiring Aussie lassies in miniskirts, South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky swept through a five-day visit to Australia last week like a politician campaigning for President. Back in Saigon some Vietnamese thought that he was doing just that in preparation for his nation's return to civilian rule...
...Royal Australian Army's Canungra jungle training center, watching Aussie "diggers" slated for Viet Nam thread an obstacle course known as "the horror stretch." On the firing range, a lieutenant offered him a burp gun, saying "Here, mate, have a go at it." "No, thank you," replied the premier, "I am in civilian clothes, so I don't shoot." Stopping at a small farming community, he gave a little speech on the schoolhouse steps, then sought out the village's old man resting near by in the shade. "How old are you, sir?" he asked one grizzled...
...resolving the border disputes that have grown in recent weeks to dangerous levels. For the Israelis, however, trust must equally reside in Israel's highly mechanized and vigorous army, without which the 19-year-old nation might long since have been pushed into the sea. Last week Premier Levi Eshkol came under heavy pressure at home to unleash his mailed fist in retaliation for what is interpreted in Jerusalem as nothing less than Syrian brinkmanship...
...platform that Adlai Stevenson chose to rebut the Saturday Evening Post's article depicting him as a craven dove during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. It was the launching pad for Nelson Rockefeller's 1964 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, the forum from which Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda apologized to the U.S. for the 1964 stabbing of Ambassador Edwin Reischauer, the program on which Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower spent the morning of their 50th anniversary...