Word: visits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Lyndon Johnson was hopeful that the worst of the crisis was over-and in fact took off for a tumultuous visit to Mexico City in order to demonstrate his detachment-Washington was taking no chances. In a carefully worded, 15-page "working paper," White House and State Department experts listed a number of possibilities ranging in outlook from high optimism to bone-deep pessimism. The least acceptable contingency was the prospect of a neutralist regime in Saigon that would either demand outright U.S. withdrawal or impose such humiliating restrictions as to make a pullout unavoidable...
...went from stop to stop. In Budapest, discussions with Hungarian foreign ministry officials and a visit to Cardinal Mindszenty; in Sofia, trade talks with Bulgarian economists and a chug-a-lug of the first cold Coca-Cola from a new bottling plant. Then back to Warsaw to prepare his report. Gronouski's summation: "There hasn't yet been a great deal of change [in Communist economic systems], but there is a great deal of thinking. With one exception-Rumania-the countries I visited are experimenting with new economic reforms. That gives more room for individual initiative and opens...
Whenever possible, Lovell travels outside Britain to keep up to date on scientific progress in other nations and to promote cooperation among the world's scientists. After conferring with space experts during a 1963 visit to the Soviet Union, he brought back word that the Russians might well have abandoned the race for the moon. It was one of the few times that Lovell's considered judgment has been dead wrong...
...barrier to free intellectual inquiry. Last week this new ideal of the church was summed up by the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, Father General of the Society of Jesus, who spoke at a convocation honoring the 125th anniversary of the Jesuits' Fordham University, during a 17-day visit to the U.S. "The university must be free to analyze not only ungrounded attacks upon the faith, but formulations, defenses and practical orientations which only bring the faith into derision," said Arrupe, whose own worldwide seminary system has shared in the aggiornamento. "Where such freedom fails to flower, invaluable sectors...
Most of the details of Papa's eventual hospitalization at the Mayo Clinic, where he received electroshock treatment, have been told before. But Hotchner gives them a special poignancy. There is, for example, an account of Hotchner's last visit, in June 1961, when Hemingway, suffering from delusions and high blood pressure, complained bitterly: "What does a man care about? Staying healthy. Working good. Eating and drinking with his friends. Enjoying himself in bed. I haven't any of them. Do you understand, goddamn it? None of them!" And so, less than a month later, Papa Hemingway...