Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a rustle of rich brocade and a swish of scented silk, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu swept into the U.S. last week. She was accompanied by her handsome, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, and preceded by some of the worst press notices since Tokyo Rose. Although not even her bitterest critics would doubt her courage, the petite sister-in-law of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem did have some fears about her 21-day coast-to-coast visit. Going to the U.S., said she, would probably be like walking into "a cage of lions...
Foretaste on Tobago. Swiftly, the wind rose to 75-m.p.h. hurricane force, then, to 90, 100 and 110. At noon on Sept. 30, Flora swept down on the island of Tobago, the legendary land of Robinson Crusoe off the Venezuelan coast. Entire plantations of coconut palms were flattened as by a scythe. It took only four hours for Flora to come and go. In her path she left 18 dead, hundreds injured, some 17,000 homeless, and property damage that helpless authorities estimated at many millions...
...speaking invitation to Alabama's Governor George Wallace will be reconsidered at a meeting of the Young Democratic Club Executive Committee tonight. Second vice-president Burt L. Rose '65 will introduce a new motion to extend an unconditional invitation to the Governor...
...apparently, with Novelist-Scientist C. P. Snow, who has graphically documented the follies of government-directed research in wartime). Finally, the night before his speech last week, Wilson retired at 11 o'clock to his $32-a-day hotel suite, spent seven hours dictating and editing, rose at 6 a.m., and was still working on it when he stood to deliver the speech at the morning session...
...nicely. One evening Fanny goes to a dinner party in honor of the members of a film company who have been shooting a picture on location in the village. In midmeal the film's darkly brooding director, Rob Quillet, leans across the table and murmurs, "Is there a rose named Fanny Clavering? If there isn't, there ought to be." Fanny's tinderdry heart goes up in flames...