Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When he got to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, Rademaekers was met by a male guide who, seeing only an American alight from the plane, said that they must wait for a Frenchman who was also due. After two hours of warmhearted brandy tippling at the airport with Georgians, who obviously wanted to show their fondness for Americans, Rademaekers was inspired to ask the name of the overdue French tourist. "Rade-mekus," said the guide. Thus Bill Rademaekers discovered that he was waiting for himself...
Since the U.S. had suspected Soviet FOBS' development for so long, why did Washington wait until last week to make it official? One answer is that it was only in the past few weeks that analysts felt the evidence was strong enough. Also, with congressional hearings this week on the nation's missile defense system, McNamara obviously wanted to use his own platform for such a significant disclosure. Finally, no doubt, Washington felt that Moscow might make the announcement during this week's 50th-anniversary celebrations of the Soviet Revolution, and thus create the shattering impression that...
After 128 years of rule, Britain can hardly wait to get out of troubled South Arabia and leave its recalcitrant Arabs to run-or ruin-their own affairs. It set an independence date for early next year, but has been itching to move it up-if only it could find a working government to which it could turn over power. Anti-British terrorism in South Arabia has already taken the lives of 56 British soldiers, and some 300 Arabs have died as a result of a feud between two opposing terrorist groups. East week, fed up with it all, Britain...
Nobel Prize selection committees tend to wait decades rather than years to bestow their awards. Last week Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences, which picks laureates in physics and chemistry, ran true to Nobel form...
...moment, the CNCV headquarters is relaxed. The three-week wait for the vote-counting is aggravating, but it will allow the soldier vote to come in from Vietnam. The hope is that if the soldiers, several hundred strong, vote against the war, the CNCV could steal most of the Vets' thunder and the sign "My Son is a Marine," pasted on more than one door in Ward 4,, could take on a very different meaning...