Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attired in his morning coat, Attorney General Charles Cornu, 70, rose for his final summation against the defendant, in whose home he had been a frequent guest. Cornu first explained haltingly that he had not really been Jaccoud's "friend," and that their relationship had always been "professional." Looking at the emaciated defendant, Cornu then charged that "this charming, intelligent, celebrated lawyer, this great man of politics, was an abject criminal who shot and stabbed a defenseless...
...reign, the U.S. pinned the Legion of Merit on the dictator and regarded Exile Betancourt as a troublemaking embarrassment. In 1955 Governor Muñoz Marin of Puerto Rico invited President Figueres of Costa Rica to a meeting in Puerto Rico, where Betancourt, a good friend of both, was then living. The State Department's chief for Latin American Affairs, Henry Holland, hastily got Muñoz Marin on the telephone. He insisted that Muñoz send Betancourt out of Puerto Rico as long as Figueres was there to keep Venezuelan Dictator...
...wealthy Russian wool importer, Milstein was guided into a virtuoso's career by his ambitious mother, freely admits that he was unenthusiastic about the violin until he was 16 and began to give public recitals. In 1925 he left Russia for Western Europe with his lifelong friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz...
...sell his scheme, Saarinen had his longtime friend Charles Eames make a film on the trials of an air passenger, in which one background noise was the squeak of shoes. Washington officials were sold, last week displayed Saarinen's design for the building, to be completed in the spring of 1961. The field itself will occupy 9,800 acres near Chantilly, Va. (23 miles west of Washington), boast two major runways each 2¼ miles long. Saarinen admits to not having solved another major headache for air travelers: the long wait for baggage. "After a careful survey," Saarinen says...
Died. Diana Barrymore, 38, John ("The Great Profile") Barrymore's daughter, who made a promising start on the stage in the best Barrymore tradition, but was soon sidetracked by drink and a series of freeloading friends and lovers while juicy tabloid stories and a ghosted autobiography (Too Much, Too Soon) celebrated the events in her decline; in Manhattan. Diana hoped for another comeback in a production of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, hoped also, she told friends, to marry Williams. Fittingly, Friend Williams delivered a realistic eulogy: "She had great talent but no control. Without control...