Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops from the staff headquarters of General William Westmoreland, commander of all U.S. forces in South Viet Nam. The order read: "In keeping with the spirit of Christmas and consistent with like instructions that have been issued by the Chief of Staff, Vietnamese Armed Forces, Lieut. General Cao Van Vien, General Westmoreland has directed that U.S. forces in Viet Nam will not fire at or on the enemy except in self-defense during the hours of 1800, 24 December, and 2400, 25 December...
...chairman and chief executive of Westinghouse Electric Corp. from 1929 to 1945, a Pittsburgh lawyer who guided the firm through the Depression into the spectacular growth years of World War II, tripling its sales with new consumer appliances (dishwashers, electric ranges), the first industrial atom smasher (the 1937 Van de Graaff generator) and a vast array of defense equipment; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh...
This time the feeler was extended by a pair of professors from an Italian university-one of them was Giorgio La Pira, onetime mayor of Florence-who purportedly had interviewed Ho and his Premier, Pham Van Dong, early in November. Through U.N. General Assembly President Amintore Fanfani, the would-be diplomatists reported breathlessly that Hanoi was now "prepared to initiate negotiations without first requiring actual withdrawal of American troops." In an echo of Lyndon Johnson, Ho was even quoted as saying: "I am prepared to go anywhere, to meet anyone...
...sterile times. A case in point is the latest John F. Kennedy memorial, this one to be raised by a Dallas citizens' committee three blocks from where the President was gunned down. To design it, Dallas called in Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson, 59, codesigner, with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, of Park Avenue's Seagram Building...
...though he might not have quite as much money as Father Henry, he spent it with more style. This was a man who handed out gold cigarette boxes as if they were match books, ordered his suits 16 at a time. The salon of the Creole was furnished with Van Goghs, Renoirs, a Gaugin and a Rouault...