Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Nixon spoke from the same platform next day, it rained again, though not until near the end of the speech (South Dakota is traditionally Republican territory). A week before, at Guthrie Center, Iowa, Nixon had laid out the first half of his farm program, "Operation Consume," designed to shrink present farm surpluses by increasing consumption of farm products (TIME, Sept. 26). At Sioux Falls he unwrapped the second half, "Operation Safeguard," designed to forestall future buildups of surpluses...
Taken Aback. But in London last week a butler was shrilling secrets from the housetops. His name: Thomas Albert Cronin, 44. His former employer: Mr. Antony Armstrong-Jones, an ex-photographer and present husband of Princess Margaret. On a double-truck spread in the weekly People, Cronin poured out the reasons he left his royal job after only 25 days at Tony and Meg's Kensington Palace residence. With butlerian unctuousness, Cronin declares that the exposé is for him "a painful task" but necessary to preserve the "dignity of the royal family and my own reputation...
...smaller Common Market nations, led by the Dutch, were even unhappier at the thought of losing their present small voice in NATO affairs to De Gaulle's proposed super-directorate. They were distressed by the weakening of the alliance implicit in De Gaulle's demand for replacement of integrated NATO military forces by independent national commands. On both scores, Washington agrees. Three weeks ago the U.S. quietly informed the NATO Council of its flat opposition to all De Gaulle's plans for "reforming the alliance...
...Communist pressure. "Students from all over Africa and the Near East," they said, "are finding in Moscow that they are merely being used as agents of Soviet power politics." They said that students from 14 African countries met secretly in Moscow before they left and authorized them "to present our case against Communism when we arrived in the West...
Often the priest appeared in church to say Mass with some of his clothes turned inside out and his biretta askew. If there were finicky intellectuals present, he was likely to recite the liturgy in ungrammatical Latin. Sometimes he had his hair cut in church: once he turned up at the poshest party in Rome with a week's growth of beard on one side of his face. Yet he was a saint-respected by several Popes, visited by cardinals on his sickbed...