Word: evenings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter arrived at a time when the general diplomatic climate in Central Europe seemed to be improving. Until last week, Walter Ulbricht, the East bloc's most durable Stalinist, had appeared to be Europe's odd man out. Even as the Soviet Union and his other Communist allies arranged bilateral talks with Bonn, he went right on insisting that West Germany must recognize his regime as the price for any negotiations about lessening tensions. But last week, at Ulbricht's bidding, the East German Volkskammer (People's Chamber) unanimously passed a resolution empowering the government...
...nerve to finish fifth in a field of twelve. Then, back in Panama City, a couple of colonels tried to make it a daily double by turning him out of office in a countercoup. The result, within 48 fast-moving hours, was a counter-countercoup, something that not even Panama has experienced before...
...Even as the colonels reshuffled Torrijos' Cabinet, rival Guardia officers prepared to bring their chief back. Next day, word came from Mexico City: 'Torrijos is returning." On that signal, 14 truckloads of Guardsmen roared out of a garrison at outlying Tocumen Airport. Some fanned out over the country, others sped into Panama City and pulled up at the dingy, Victorian Guardia headquarters. After a bit of harmless shooting, Sanjur and Silvera were led off to jail...
Children of every race and nationality thronged a UNICEF Christmas party at the United Nations, but one kid asked Comedian Godfrey Cambridge: "Why are you a brown Santa?" "We come in all colors this year," breezed Santa, who had even stuffed the traditional pillow under his belt. Time was when he would not have needed it; Cambridge once weighed...
...also offered another argument. By holding Calley in the military beyond his discharge date, said his lawyers, the Army is keeping him in "involuntary servitude." Arguing that a court-martial does not adequately protect a defendant's rights, they made a motion to dismiss the charges. Even Calley's career-Army lawyer, Major Kenneth Raby, concurred, quoting a recent Supreme Court decision that criticizes military trials as "marked by the age-old manifest destiny of retributive justice...