Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since he spoke those words on his arrival in Saigon last July as the new U.S. ambassador, Maxwell Taylor has been looking for that decisive-and elusive-1,002nd way. As of last week, he seemed to be no closer to finding it than when he started. He was locked in an extraordinary battle with the Vietnamese army he was supposed to be "aiding," most notably with Lieut. General Nguyen Khanh. In a deliberate and perhaps desperate move, Taylor was ready to risk an ultimate break with the Vietnamese army in order to lay down...
Belden Daniels, one of the directors of the Commonwealth Service Corps, spoke to the chairman of the PBH committees and asked their help in establishing "a network of PBH's all over the Commonwealth...
...Americans in Saigon were not quite sure what to call it. Some spoke of a purge, others of a coup or a semi-coup. Whatever it was, it threatened more than semi-disaster...
...components are having trouble balancing each other, Nyerere and Karume apparently are trying hard to balance East and West. In the receiving line welcoming Nyerere, U.S. Consul General Frank Carlucci was neatly played off against East German Ambassador Guenther Fritsch. To demonstrate their nonalignment, Nyerere and Karume spoke Swahili with both the American and the East German; Carlucci answered them fluently, while Fritsch, wincing behind his sunglasses, used an interpreter...
...Taft-Hartley law's section authorizing state right-to-work laws. Then, after sandwiching in a buffet supper for some 1,500 White House staffers, the President greeted 14 business leaders. As he always does, Johnson impressed the businessmen, and A. T. & T.'s Frederick R. Kappel spoke for them all when he reported that the President "is being extremely wise in his thoughtful evaluation" of the U.S. economy...