Word: setters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plainly taken aback by his decision to come, the Czechoslovaks at first announced that Kosygin, as though he were any idle jet-setter, had merely slipped into town for a "short holiday" and a dip in the healing waters of the local spas. They had to admit soon enough that Kosygin really had come for "a continuation of an exchange of views" on Czechoslovak matters. At the first exchange with Dubcek, President Ludvik Svoboda and other officials, Kosygin reported that their reforms were "meeting with understanding" in Moscow-presumably a reassurance...
...like his own times, or predicament. He lived alone except for a red setter bitch. He corresponded hugely with his Cambridge friends, but when they visited him friendship sometimes went sour. He had at least two heterosexual love affairs, but these were unhappy failures. After such disappointments, he would learn something new-cinematography, or how to fly an airplane. He drank too much...
Known as a record setter--first blind person to dislocate his shoulder playing tackle football, etc.--Krents says he "might be the first American soldier captured in Vietnam while looking for the latrine...
...Reporter magazine presented a steadfast face to the world. From the day it started in 1949, its standards of journalism were high, its contributors stayed close to the facts, and it enthusiastically accepted the postwar role of the U.S. as a world arbiter and standard-setter. As the years rolled by, how ever, many liberals became disenchanted with U.S. action as international policeman or bored with straight reporting and turned instead to the more sensational outpourings of the New Left. But the Reporter, personified by Publisher Max Ascoli, never wavered. Last week it paid the price of consistency by announcing...
Hardin, the little two-mile indoor record-setter, will double with Baker in the mile and two-mile, giving Harvard near-invincible distance strength...