Word: presenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They are drafting a reply to the Soviet note for Lyndon Johnson, asking for clarification and suggesting further exchanges. So far, the U.S. envisages any big-power agreement not as a deal to be "imposed" but merely as a set of proposals that U.N. Special Representative Gunnar Jarring could present to Arabs and Israelis. He resumes his go-between role this month after five weeks at his regular post as Sweden's ambassador to Moscow. In any case, even a decision on four-power discussion, let alone its possible outcome, will be left to the incoming Nixon government...
...Liberia was actually founded in 1822, after agents of the American Colonization Society bought land near the present capital, Monrovia, and settled a number of freed slaves from the U.S. there...
...preserve order within a tribal structure. But most human aggregates have gone beyond the tribe. And perhaps as an inevitable result, aggression no longer keeps but strains the peace. In man's simpler and less crowded past, aggression was both useful and effective; in man's present, it can lead to such thoroughly unanimal behavior as murder...
This is partly because the human animal straddles the past and the present. "It is not only our bodies that are primitive, but also our customs," Washburn writes. "They are not adapted to the crowded, technical world, dominated by a fantastic acceleration of scientific knowledge. There is a fundamental difficulty in the fact that contemporary human groups are led by primates whose evolutionary history dictates a strong desire to dominate. Attempts to build personal or international relations on the wishful basis that people will not be aggressive is as futile as it would be to try to build the institution...
...from Peoria, Ill., and, on a trip to Italy, met and married Prince Filippo, Duke of Melito. Agnelli has played down the playboy image, but he still is occasionally the last man out of a nightclub. Recalling his earlier years, he says: "People had fun because they wanted to. Present-day playboys play for the public. Values today are of very bad quality. One may have had bad habits in the old days but never bad quality...