Word: primed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Continued Role. From Saigon the travelers went to Bangkok, where they were greeted by Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn in a gilded, red-curtained hall of Government House. Later in their stay they had an audience with King Bhumibol Adulyadej in his lavishly landscaped palace. The Thais discussed recent strains in their country's relations with the U.S. and said that efforts to combat Communist insurgency in northeast Thailand were, in Thanom's words, having "rather satisfactory" results...
...Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel, tour members lunched with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who warned against a precipitate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam. At week's end the travelers jetted off to Indonesia for conferences with President Suharto and Foreign Minister Adam Malik. Visits to South Korea and Japan lay ahead before they crossed the international dateline on the trip home...
British-born Graham Kerr, commercial TV's answer to Julia Child, made his U.S. debut in seven cities only last month. In Los Angeles and San Francisco, his syndicated half-hour weekday show, The Galloping Gourmet, is already so hot that it will soon go into prime time once a week. Two other markets will join next week. Before the year is out, Kerr, 35, may well become as ubiquitous on TV sets as the White Tornado...
...full year beyond its June 30 expiration. Last week Paul McCracken, the President's chief economist, warned the Joint Congressional Economic Committee that current tight-money policies may have to be maintained throughout 1969. It is now considered quite possible that commercial banks will once again raise the prime interest rate, which is already at 7%. Any further increase would make it that much costlier for companies to carry out capital-spending plans...
Died. Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, 81, grande dame of British politics and symbol of the Liberal Party's intellectual-humanist tradition; in London. The daughter of Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith (1908-16), Lady Asquith became her party's most eloquent spokesman in the 1930s. She was twice defeated for the House of Commons, but in 1964 was granted a lifetime peerage and thus a seat in the House of Lords -from which she berated Prime Minister Wilson for his failure to cope with Britain's economic woes...