Word: putting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon had happened to arrive in Bucharest one day early, he would have been hard put to believe that Rumania was expecting him at all. Until the night before he was due, the only visible preparations for his visit were special parking regulations along main boulevards. This studied calm, however, turned out to be yet another indication of President Ceausescu's masterful diplomatic balancing act: an assurance to Russia, which had expressed displeasure over a U.S. presidential visit in its front yard, that he was not going all-out to welcome Nixon...
...hours early-began streaming out to Otopeni Airport. By the time President and Mrs. Nixon stepped into the brilliant Bucharest sunshine, some 600,000 Rumanians had lined up to provide the warmest and most tumultuous welcome of Nixon's trip. The joviality continued into the evening, when Ceausescu put on a splashy state dinner in the marbled palace of Rumania's kings. Raising his champagne glass, Ceausescu toasted "the triumph of peace, this grand ideal of human beings on all continents." The President eagerly clinked glasses with his Rumanian host before launching into his own, similar speech. There...
Lunar Receiving Lab (LRL), where the Apollo 11 astronauts are spending their postflight quarantine, teams of scientists are trying to put together bits and pieces of the lunar puzzle. Much of the work proceeds at a slow, painstaking pace. Last week, some NASA geologists seemed almost apologetic about their progress. "I've never been so frustrated in my life," complained Mineralogist Elbert King, the LRL's curator. "We've been working for years to get the lunar samples in our clutches. But I was unable to find a single mineral that I could immediately identify...
...Dame of Sark, who is responsible only to Queen Elizabeth II, announced that she planned to surrender the sovereignty of her 3-mile-long-by-H-mile-wide island to neighboring Guernsey, eight miles farther out in the English Channel. Her 575 subjects were aghast. "The Dame has put us in a small boat and pushed us down the river," groused Philip Perree, a hotelkeeper. "We have no wish to be ruled by the bureaucrats of Guernsey...
...lady's 40th birthday can be a depressing affair. But Aristotle Onassis knew how to put a sparkle into his Jacqueline's anniversary. First there was a gala dinner for family and friends at their villa in Glifadha, outside Athens; then they moved on to the Neraida Club for Jackie's introduction to Athenian night life. The dancing and bouzouki music went on until 7 a.m., with Jackie clapping spiritedly to the rhythm and raising toasts to the players. At one point, eavesdroppers heard her tell Ari: "I want to know every word of those beautiful songs...