Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...austerity Britain, aroused intense national pride. "America's No. 1 news magazine," reported the London Daily Sketch, paid "OUR Fair Ladies" an extraordinary compliment. "TIME," agreed the News Chronicle, "has an expert roving eye." But when British wives and sweethearts began to ask why British menfolk had to wait for an American news magazine to appreciate them, latent male jealousy asserted itself. "On behalf of the Brit ish male," wrote the Star's Columnist Colin Frame, "I resent the implication that we have no judgment. Dammit all, 99.9% of us marry them, don't we?" Britain...
Each weekday morning, when the doors of the U.S. consulate in Havana open, a long line of Cubans waits to enter. Their aim: to get out of Castro's Cuba. The consulate issues 200 visas a day, but the demand is so great that applicants now must wait until next May even to get appointments for interviews. The drain on Cuba's supply of trained men-engineers, economists, doctors-last week persuaded Castro to cancel all existing exit permits. Henceforth, those who want to leave home must fill out an elaborately detailed questionnaire. Its aim was plain...
...note of the countryside from the train bearing her to a camp rally in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Castro perked her interest a bit. He was "strong, smiling." But after the briefest of stays, Author Sagan left Havana, confided to a friend: "Cuba was dull. I couldn't wait...
...home, where newsmen were surrounded by assorted Kennedys and in-laws (including Jackie's pretty sister, Princess Radziwill). The special three-week session of Congress, said Jack, would absorb all of his and L.B.J.'s time and attention until Labor Day; despite Nixon the campaign could wait. During the session, they would attempt to enact such major Democratic planks as medical care for the aged, a $1.25 minimum wage, aid for education, and foreign aid, and if President Eisenhower vetoed or the Republicans closed ranks in opposition, that would stoke up the campaign too. Said Jack Kennedy...
...spite of the crowds that wait to get in. Director James Johnson Sweeney of Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has never gotten along with his spiraling new building on upper Fifth Avenue. He took a dislike to the place the moment he first saw Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's plans, and though he seemed for a while to have made a kind of peace with it, he was never really satisfied. Last week the museum announced that Sweeney had quit...