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...decades, Australia has relied on the U.S. as its chief ally in the Pacific. In recent years that tie was immensely strengthened by close personal rapport between President Johnson and Prime Minister Harold Holt. When Holt drowned in the surf off Portsea last December, much of the intuitive understanding between Washington and Canberra died with him. Holt's successor, John Grey Gorton, has been so beset by doubts about the durability of the U.S. commitment to Asia that Australia is considering a complete overhaul of its own defense and foreign policies...
First, but in no particular order of importance, he said the coach must develop a working rapport with his players. "I've got players here from California and Florida," he explained, "They've got no parents to talk to. If they can't come to me with personal problems, then I've failed as a coach...
...Borges and Us" provides an audience just beginning to appreciate Borges' inventive "fictions" and enchanting Norton lectures with an introduction to the remarkable personality behind the magic. Wilson's technique is to remain unobtrusive, to give Borges free rein. The two quickly establish a lively, productive rapport (Wilson: "My next question may be irrelevant." Borges: "I enjoy irrelevant questions.... The answers are irrelevant, so the questions have to be irrelevant also...
Rockefeller's relationship with Lindsay has never been more than coldly cordial, but even if it were warm, it is doubtful whether Rockefeller would have agreed to mobilize the Guard. The Governor has considerable rapport with labor, and particularly DeLury's union, which strongly supported him for re-election in 1966. Though he insists he is not a presidential candidate, he was loath to become a strikebreaking Governor (though such stern action would probably have helped among conservatives, who most distrust him). There were also material arguments against calling out the Guard: the cost to the city would...
...despite his unorthodox methods, belongs on the list. "The Great Mogul," as he was called by the embassy staff, won no plaudits for such stunts as wading barefoot in a paddyfield or carrying sacks of cement on his head at a dam construction site. Nonetheless, he achieved a remarkable rapport with Nehru, a man who, he says, was "touched with magic." He also performed with great, still unappreciated distinction during the 1962 Chinese border invasion. "The Indians panicked," says one former assistant. "They just didn't know what to do, and for about two days Galbraith held that government together...