Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hershey's inveterate hawkishness has made him a symbol to the young of all that is wrong with the draft. For his part, Laird believes that a military man should not head Selective Service. Yet Hershey has some powerful friends on Capitol Hill, so Nixon is likely to wait at least until his bill passes through Congress, if it does, before easing the petulant Hershey into retirement...
...Funeral. What gave the Moscow story of Mao's illness an authentic ring was some of the specific information on which it rested. Mao's stroke, the sources said, explained why Chou left Hanoi so hurriedly on Sept. 4, without even bothering to wait for Ho Chi Minh's funeral. At the time, the speed with which he departed for Peking was interpreted as an attempt to avoid Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who was about to arrive for the ceremonies...
...first his manager claimed that he was just feverish from some bug he picked up in Australia, but now it's official: love has finally come to Tiny Tim. An impetuous swain, the unearthly falsetto couldn't wait to tell reporters about his betrothal to Vicki Budinger, 17, and thereby robbed Johnny Carson of a promised exclusive on the Tonight Show. Still, Carson got to preside over the presentation of a diamond ring to "Miss Vicki" and signed up the lovers for a network wedding on Christmas Day. As Tiny tells it, he first met Vicki last June...
...satchel," he says. "Mine's really a medical bag," he explains. "When people ask me what's in it I say I'm a pusher." What does he carry in it, then? "I keep my money in it. And a book, in case I have to wait for someone. And the papers I'm working on. And four or five pairs of glasses. And a toothbrush and toothpaste, because you never know where you might spend the night...
Nibbling on Ice. At Cape Providence, the Manhattan slowed to wait for its U.S. Coast Guard escort, the Northwind, which was hobbling on five of its six engines. Within seconds, the tanker was surrounded by ice hummocks blown into its wake by high winds. Captain Steward reversed the engines, then charged the Arctic ice, which, because of its age, had lost its salt content and become rock-hard. When the 10-to 15-ft.-thick ice would not give after twelve hours, the stubby Canadian icebreaker John A. Macdonald was called to the rescue...