Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intimate friend of Castro explains it, the recommendation of mental rest stems from Castro's current mood. Castro, says the friend, has entered a period of mysticism, and is eager to withdraw from the day-to-day world of misunderstanding, defecting friends and tedious government. He wants to retreat into the hills to write poetry (he has tried his hand at it and does well) and meditate. "I am leader of an American revolution." Castro told his friend recently, "not chief of a small country's government." But the mood is plainly related to his physical ills...
...become perhaps the world's most skillful diplomat. When East and West were glowering in immobilized anger, Hammarskjold quietly slipped into Peking in 1955 and negotiated the release of 15 captive U.S. flyers. When the British, French and Israelis attacked Egypt in 1956 and were told to retreat by the U.S., Hammarskjold organized the first world police force to keep order in the Middle East. Never making statements from which he would have to retreat, never committing others to public positions that they could not defend, Hammarskjold has cautiously moved behind a cloud of equivocal words...
...Lady Churchill journeyed to Venice, briefly explored its familiar old canals by motorboat before going aboard a somewhat larger craft, the rakish, 325-ft. yacht of Shipping Lord Aristotle Socrates Onassis. Bound for a leisurely Mediterranean cruise, the yacht sailed down the Adriatic Sea. dropped anchor near a retreat of Yugoslavia's President Tito. Going ashore, Sir Winston rekindled his spirits by reliving some World War II battles with his erstwhile partisan ally...
...pilot, Kesselring developed the combined ground-air attack strategy that was the key to early Nazi victories, at war's start commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa and took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow retreat up the boot of Italy. Condemned to die by the British in 1947 for the reprisal massacre of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome, he got the sentence commuted to life and then to 20 years. Freed because of ill health in 1952, Kesselring was well enough to become...
...hurried political expedition into New York City last week, Texas' Senator Lyndon B. Johnson all but bumped into Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy, who had slipped away from his seaside vacation retreat at Hyannisport, Mass, to do some New York politicking himself. Just as Kennedy headed into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, by long-shot coincidence the car bringing Johnson from the airport pulled up at the entrance. Johnson strode indoors so fast that he did not even see Kennedy, but Kennedy saw Johnson, and let out a startled semi-shout: "What's that guy doing here...