Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Idlewild International Airport. There was the young man bound for Warsaw to the bedside of his cancer-ridden mother, the teen-age wife of a Europe-based serviceman making her first flight, the pregnant young wife of another overseas G.I., the middle-aged priest going to Brussels for a reunion with his parents, the tourists brimming with language books and visions of Notre Dame and Rimini, the comfortably tired Brussels businessman...
...anniversary in the theater of Actress Peggy Wood (Bittersweet, Blithe Spirit), ANTA last week collected round her most of the remaining members of the much-chronicled Algonquin Round Table. The late great wits were missing, of course-Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Herman Mankiewicz-and, significantly, the reunion was held not at the old rear-center table in the Rose Room of the Algonquin but in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Edison, five blocks and 90 light-years away. The most notable living absentees were George S. Kaufmann, who is ill, and Dorothy Parker...
Through the Fields of Clover is concerned, more or less, with What Is Happening to the Sanctity of the American Divorce. A nice old Massachusetts couple decide to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary with a family reunion. All of their sons and daughters have been divorced at least once, and what with all the stepparents and stepchildren, the affair threatens to become the merriest Old Broken Home Week you ever...
Deeper Significance. For the two Air Force captains, the reunion with their families was an unqualified blessing. But even as the flyers left for Kansas at week's end, pundits around the world were already debating the deeper significance of their adventure. DETENTE. THE HORIZON CLEARS, cheered headlines in Paris' L'Humanité. "We welcome this action as removing one obstacle to Soviet-American relations," said a British Foreign Office spokesman. The London Daily Telegraph was more skeptical, and more realistic: "We should not forget that it has for many years been the practice of Soviet diplomacy...
Still erect and handsome, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur celebrated his 81st birthday in Manhattan as guest of honor at the 14th annual reunion of the senior officers of his World War II Southwest Pacific Area Command. The stag dinner, which is always held on MacArthur's birthday, is virtually his only public appearance. So successfully has the old soldier faded away that he never gives an interview, seldom leaves his Waldorf Towers hermitage, even to preside as board chairman at executive meetings of Sperry Rand Corp...