Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editors chose one of Australia's most illustrious painters: William Dobell, 60. whose bold, imaginative style has won him the New South Wales National Art Gallery's Archibald Prize for portraiture three times. Painter Dobell found Prime Minister Menzies a "good sitter," reports that they chatted about friends, other artists and a mutual lumbago during their sketching sessions. Viewing the finished product, a friend remarked that Dobell had captured Menzies' "supercilious look." "No," corrected Dobell, "I've got his disdain-for-critics look." Gruffed Menzies himself: "I see you've got my damned chins...
...York City, two of the party's toughest old pros, Pennsylvania Governor David Lawrence and Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio, held a high powwow (also present: onetime Illinois Kingmaker Jake Arvey) dedicated to the proposition that primaries are eyewash. De Sapio, like his good friend Harry Truman, favors the Symington candidacy. Lawrence let it be known that his heart still belongs to Adlai Stevenson ("the most capable man in either party to be President"), but those who talked to Lawrence thought they detected brain waves for Symington. Both bosses entertain strong private doubts about a fellow Catholic...
...Lieut. Commander Jaime Varela Canosa stepped out as Cuban naval attache in Mexico City and headed for asylum in the U.S., "where I will be able to breathe in an atmosphere of democratic and Christian liberty." ¶ Rioting kept TV Commentator Luis Conte Aguero, a college classmate and close friend of Castro until he recently grew apprehensive of Red infiltration in Cuba, from going before TV cameras for a swan-song denunciation of Communist influence in the government. ¶Captain Jorge Enrique Sotus Romero, one of Castro's first military commanders during the revolution, was sentenced to 20 years...
...office in midtown Manhattan to begin another working day. Unassisted, he disengaged a system of multiple door locks and felt his way to his desk. Sitting alone, Riesel mulled over story possibilities; as ideas came to him, he wrote them down in a barely legible hand. He dialed a friend's number on the telephone. "Read me the Times," he said, and listened intently for about 15 minutes. Columnist Riesel, 45, cannot read the Times for himself: he has been almost blind since a New York hoodlum hurled sulphuric acid into his eyes four years...
...John gained a reputation, a growing surgical practice at St. George's Hospital and a household. He had married the daughter of a friend from his two-year career as an army surgeon-Anne Home, who bore him four children and wrote tidy verses to Franz Joseph Haydn's music. While John padded about his museum, Anne kept a salon graced by Johnson and Boswell, Lord Chesterfield and Gibbon. Some of Hunter's students came too: Edward Jenner, who administered the first successful vaccination; Philip Syng Physick, the "Father of American Surgery...