Word: sessions
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Born. To Ralph Dungan, 43, U.S. Ambassador to Chile since 1964 and onetime J.F.K. presidential adviser, and Mary Rowley Dungan, 40: their seventh child, third daughter; in Santiago, Chile, thereby forcing Dungan to miss the first session of the International Planned Parenthood Federation convening in Santiago...
Portrait by Romney. Dining at 10 Downing Street, he delightedly pointed out to Prime Minister Harold Wilson that a painting of William Pitt the Younger bore the signature of George Romney, the 18th century English portraitist. In a private session with 200 British peers and Members of Parliament, left-wing Laborites did their best to bait him, but Humphrey fielded their barbed questions with aplomb, won a standing ovation at the end. "That was a magnificent performance," said Conservative Party Leader Ted Heath. In Bonn, his talks with West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger went off smoothly, even...
...charged that he was the grey eminence behind Aspida (meaning shield), a plot in which a group of junior army officers sought in 1965 to install a socialist regime. Fifteen officers were jailed after a trial, and the government seemed ready to arrest Andreas when Parliament's current session closed and his immunity ended. To forestall this, the Center Union Party introduced a motion to extend the immunity to cover the period between Parliament's adjournment this month and the May elections. Kanellopoulos and his rightist National Radical Union balked at this plan and withdrew their support from...
Strength from the Lord. Their hopes were bluntly disappointed. Addressing the opening session of the East German synod, Bishop Friedrich Wilhelm Krum-macher of Greifswald warned: "If Christians, who are limbs of the one Lord, and who belong together as limbs of one church, are no longer allowed to be mentioned in one breath, it is no longer an institutional question but a matter of the unity of faith in one Lord...
Equally defiant of Communist hopes was the synod's participation in the election of a new council chairman, Germany's top Protestant post. The man chosen-Bavaria's Bishop Hermann Dietzfelbinger, 58-was in fact formally proposed by the Fiirstenwalde session. Regarded as a moderate on the question of East-West relations, Dietzfelbinger was chosen over the pre-synod favorite, Hannover's Bishop Hanns Lilje, who is more closely identified with Germany's political controversies. Dietzfelbinger succeeds Bishop Kurt Scharf of Berlin-Brandenburg, who hopes to return to East Berlin, from which he was expelled...