Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cease-fire be proclaimed. In Paris, U.S. and North Vietnamese negotiators met in the ornate Hotel Majestic for the 28th time since the peace talks began on May 13 and exchanged the usual insults. The real news, as elsewhere throughout the current thrust toward peace, lay several strata beneath the surface. The No. 2 man on the U.S. team, Cyrus Vance, was absent. He was said to be working at the American embassy, but there was speculation that he was off somewhere continuing secret talks with Hanoi's Colonel Ha Van Lau, his opposite number...
...Beneath crystal chandeliers inside Hradcany Castle, on a high hill over looking Prague, the party and government leaders of Czechoslovakia gathered to observe the 50th anniversary of their independence from Austro-Hungarian rule. The moment was solemn - and cautious. "I beg you not to demonstrate," Josef Smrkovský, President of the National Assembly, had pleaded with the students of Prague's Charles University. "Would it be surprising if tanks appeared? If you demonstrate, we might all be sorry." Most of the university heeded the warning, marking the day quietly with a philosophy-department "teach-in" against the Russian occupation...
...Istanbul during the next two days, De Gaulle found the pomp and circumstance he most enjoys. Attending a reception in the vast, marble-columned hall of the 19th century Dolmabahce Palace, De Gaulle sat with Premier Süleyman Demirel on pink satin cushions atop a gold divan. Beneath a seven-ton chandelier, long tables were weighted with 30 different kinds of food and 35 desserts prepared by 70 chefs...
...urging the completion of half-formed plans. He assembles dinners and meetings in the hope that those convoked will somehow adhere and persist. His aim is the old one of making something out of the curious mixture of professors, tutors and undergraduates who sit down to lunch every day beneath the glum stare of the 14-point moose who surveys the House dining room...
...stand in the bottom right hand corner of the blotter. That leaves him, finally, with only my information sheet, with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with the blotter edge. All this time, his feet are planted wide beneath the desk on the plastic shield. Always he looks srtaight at me, never glancing at his geometric handiwork. Blink, damn, you, blink...