Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone who enjoys social occasions, being President of the U.S. can be a pleasure. John Kennedy likes parties, and he has a real flair for pre siding over them. Last week he made big plans for starting the fall social season. Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah and his Queen Homaira were in town. In their honor, there was to be a black-tie banquet in the Rose Garden - with fireworks, a Marine-drill-squad exhibition, music by some Air Force bagpipers and ice cream souffle for dessert. But it rained that day, and the President moved the affair...
Next day, the President rode in a parade with the King, then went to the Afghan embassy for lunch. Even though there were a whole lot of things more pressing than U.S. relations with Afghanistan, he threw himself into the party, developed a nice social rapport with most everyone. He chatted with Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, toasted the King with a warm statement: "We hope the trip is useful for your own people, whose wel fare is your great concern, and I know I speak on behalf of all of us in the United States in expressing...
...John Walsh set down in a 35-m.p.h. wind on Squaw Island, site of Brambletyde, the Kennedys' shingle-sided, rented summer home. Obstetrician Walsh advised Jackie to abandon her social calendar for the remainder of the year, including the up coming state dinners for the King of Afghanistan Sept. 5 and the Emperor of Ethiopia Oct. 1 , to ensure "complete rehabilitation and continuing good health...
...pick up Ellen's trail, Miller picks up instead a mysterious German doctor named Stiglitz, who turns out to be a fleeing Nazi war criminal. Eventually they track down Nazrullah at a damsite near the ancient city of Qala Bist. But Nazrullah seems more concerned with building Afghanistan's future than with his wife's whereabouts. Ellen, after all, was only Wife...
Caravans shows more research than imagination. Michener studs his skimpy narrative with Afghan legends and interminably breathless descriptions of the sere and bleak Afghan landscape. All he succeeds in doing is making Afghanistan seem like Hawaii West...