Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanoi answer was, unless the highest officials here and in the Western embassies are not telling the truh, that the North Vietnamese Government wanted a simple one-for-one agreement: that they would agree to talk and no more than that if Washington would agree to stop the bombing. Hanoi rejected a limited bombing pause on the specific ground that this would be an "ultimatum...
...limiting it privately without admitting they were limiting it? The information here, not only from the Johnson Administration but from others that want negotiations, is that Hanoi said "no": there must be a promise of no bombing, unconditional negotiations meant no time limit on negoiations; if Washington would stop the bombing Hanoi would talk; no more than that. It was that simple...
...spite of these shortcomings, the word that kept coming to mind was "exquisite." Jaime Laredo's near-flawless intonation enabled him to give the most moving rendition of the "Kreutzer's" opening double-stop solo I have ever heard. As one member of the audience said, it was a pleasure to sit back and to listen to a violinst without having to cringe. As a team the Laredos often seemed to compete with each other. But when they both agreed on a sound, the effect was breathtaking--as when Mrs. Laredo brought herself to match her husband's pianissimo...
Vellucci has a standing proposal that Harvard be razed to make way for a parking lot, subway terminal, cab stand, and bus stop...
...years ago a prominent Presbyterian layman stated publicly that if Presbyterian ministers didn't stop what he called their "socialism," that laymen would stop contributing funds. The layman was reported to have given one million dollars to a right wing organization to make his point. But printed was a public note to the gentleman saying "The Presbyterian Church is not for sale...