Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later the frightened sailor walked into the White Rose Tavern on Whitehall Street. Almost everyone in the bar was too busy watching the World Series on TV to help. When a ship's cook named Brian Quinn finally gave him a hand, Jaanimets figured he had found a friend. In a mixture of pidgin English, Russian and Estonian, Jaanimets got his message across: he was an Estonian sailor who did not want to go back to Russia. Quinn, who has a couple of Estonian friends, knew what to do. He called the Estonia Relief Committee, let Jaanimets talk...
...fever pitch to keep her people from rebelling against austerity. But another reason is historical and geographical accident: Tito's Yugoslavia, Albania's archenemy and neighbor, is currently the favorite target for Chinese criticism, and Albania may figure that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." Oddly enough, Tito's Communist independence gives Albania its opportunity to be a little independent of Moscow. Since Tito broke with the Kremlin in 1948, Albania has been physically isolated from the other satellites, cut off from Russia by Yugoslavia and Greece. Part of Albania's interest...
Trial by Night. As the U.S. answered Castro's shrill accusations, it got some backing from an unexpected source. In Manhattan, Ambassador Teresa Casuso, a longtime friend of Castro's, and Cuba's alternate U.N. delegate, announced bitterly that she had resigned. Said Casuso: "Castro talks in the name of liberating us, but he is a dictator...
...Hispanos, Billy Graham con nosotros," the signs proclaimed in buses and stores and the old favorite hymns they sang would have startled many a Bible-belter: The Old Rugged Cross was La Cruz de Jesus, What a Friend We Have in Jesus was Oh, Qué Amigo!, and Wonderful Words of Life was Oh, Contádmelas Otra...
Reflecting on the austere ankle-length skirt, the long black coat and the antiseptic white scarf that have become Artist Georgia O'Keeffe's habitual dress, a friend recently observed: "Georgia decided a long time ago how she wanted to look, and she hasn't changed since." Much the same might be said of Georgia O'Keeffe's painting. But if she has not fundamentally changed in her 72 years, the most eminent of U.S. women painters has continued to grow in technical mastery and emotional depth. Last week, at the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum...