Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...soon as he learned to spoon up his Pablum by himself. The seventh of Joe and Rose Kennedy's nine children, he was born in his mother's bedroom in Brookline, Mass., was still in diapers when the family migrated to New York and Joe Kennedy set out to conquer Wall Street...
When his family's longtime friend Theodore Green heard of his doubts about beating Republican Nominee Raoul Archambault Jr., 39, former assistant director of the U.S. budget, the old patriarch (93) set Claiborne straight: "Tush, young man, you don't have to worry in this state...
...Jawaharlal Nehru, gradually drifted out of the Assembly. But Khrushchev with grim determination hung on, saluted savage Castro blasts at the U.S. by raising his right arm. Each time he did so, the Communist and Cuban claques in the Assembly, including reporters strategically scattered through the press gallery, set up a wild cheering calculated to convince radio listeners in Havana that Fidel was sweeping the world's assembled statesmen off their feet. No Conclusions. Khrushchev's overriding purpose last week-if he had one-was to establish himself as the friend and protector of all the uncommitted...
Bombs at Home. In Havana, Castro went straight to the Presidential Palace for a 2½-hour speech. An hour after he started, an oppositionist showing unprecedented derring-do set off a noisy bomb amidst the meeting. Castro laughed it off: "The moment I started talking of imperialism, the bomb exploded." But he announced a police-state innovation, apparently long planned: a neighborhood spy system set up to "know who lives in each block and what he does." Off went a second bomb and Castro's smile grew wan. "Let us not underestimate the imperialist enemy," he said...
After a photographer's apprenticeship in Boston, Armenian-born Yousuf Karsh set up his own portrait studio in Ottawa because he yearned to photograph prominent men. Now a courtly 51, Karsh of Ottawa is as renowned as most of his subjects. Last week the Canadian capital paid the world's foremost portrait photographer the unusual compliment of an exhibition at the National Gallery...