Word: somber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over a ticker in the White House basement last week clacked the somber words that may help to decide the fate of embattled South Viet Nam-and perhaps all of Southeast Asia. They were in a preliminary report from President Kennedy's chief military adviser, General Maxwell D. Taylor, fresh from a seven-day fact-finding tour of South Viet Nam. Though the U.S. had sent five earlier fact-finding missions to Viet Nam, Taylor's mission was to be the final, decisive survey of the situation before the U.S. decides what course to take to save...
...certain excess of irrelevant gaiety which distracts one from the somber business at hand is the film's only defect. One wonders if it is really essential to spend so much footage on the Transylvanian folk festival when what we really want to know is how things stand in Dracula's castle above the town. But this is at most a minor flaw in a generally excellent production. Dracula's Daughter, in short, makes fine entertainment, and tomorrow night's WNAC presentation - The Mad Ghoul-promises to be equally rewarding...
Does Arab Fight Arab? Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser took to Cairo radio to denounce the revolt. In somber, ragged sentences, he declared: "What happened today is more serious than Suez. Any division in national unity is much more serious than foreign aggression." To "straighten out the situation," as he put it in his broadcast, Nasser ordered his fleet and 2,000 paratroops to take seaport Latakia, started commandeering merchantmen to haul ground troops to Syria, which is seperated from Egypt by Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. Suddenly, Nasser changed his mind. He called off the attack just after...
...attention, as those who could reach the remote outpost paid their last respects. Among them was the man Hammarskjold had flown to Ndola to see: Katanga's stubborn President Moise Tshombe, whose troops were battling U.N. forces less than 100 miles away. Dressed in a grey suit and somber tie, Tshombe walked in briskly, placed a wreath of white lilies on the coffin, stood motionless for a full minute, bowed and walked out. "I knew him as a man with whom I could talk freely," he said earlier. "C'est triste pour...
...Accra last week, the 50 young teachers found the city in deep mourning over the death of Nana Kwabena Kena II, Ghana's high commissioner to India. Kena's body had arrived just before the Peace Corpsmen landed. The officials who welcomed them were in a somber mood, but the young teachers moved them deeply by singing, in Twi, the anthem Yen Ara Asase Ni (Land of Our Birth). Said U.S. Ambassador Francis Russell: "I know that they will establish deep and lasting friendship while they are here, and that they are establishing a pattern that will...