Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like a Man. If the Times over reacted, so did Richard Nixon. He seemed to make a calculated decision to turn the hassle into a national issue...
...major stumbling blocks at times indeed seemed insuperable. Aside from the prickly problem of reciprocity, there was the question of representation. At first, Hanoi demanded that the N.L.F. be seated as an independent entity and that Saigon's "puppet" government be barred altogether. Saigon, in turn, insisted on separate representation for the South Vietnamese delegation, and insisted that the N.L.F. "traitors" be kept away. Washington was campaigning hard for a "two-sided" arrangement under which the guerrilla leaders were lumped in with North Viet Nam's negotiators and the South's officials sat together with the Americans...
...biggest magnet for visitors is L.B.J.'s elaborately cosmeticized "Boyhood Home," a Texas Historical Landmark, which after three years of operation greeted its 200,000th visitor last summer. The modest white frame house is something more than "restored." All the rooms are furnished as parlors, stuffed with turn-of-the-century furniture and L.B.J. memorabilia. More rustic, but open to the public only when the President is away, is a rebuilt "birthplace" cabin on the edge of the ranch itself...
...Ankara's airport, President Charles de Gaulle's opening remarks were lost on his hosts-because the official assigned to turn on the public-address system was asleep at the switch. Then De Gaulle noticed that his interpreter had got ahead of him. Nudging the man, De Gaulle growled, "I did not say that." Finally, the Turkish security police were no match for rampaging photographers, one of whom got his camera within two feet of the general's nose during the playing of the Marseillaise...
...Embassy reception, Mike Livingston overheard a man in an Olympic booster jacket turn to his wife and say, "There's the Harvard crew, looking dirty as ever." Livingston immediately went up and introduced himself and was followed by five other Harvard crew members. Fritz Hobbs said, "I'm from the Harvard crew and I don't think we look that dirty...