Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy was loafing through the weekend at his Middleburg, Va., estate when he got a call from his press secretary telling him that Congolese ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba was officially dead. It was, the President knew, an omen of worse to come. He issued a moderate statement expressing his "shock" at the news, then waited edgily for the predictable Russian response...
...limp if police attempt to move you"-Philosopher-Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 88, laboriously and lengthily prepared for his massive, passive, sit-down demonstration in favor of unilateral British nuclear disarmament. (The new creed: "I'd rather be Red than dead ") When the great day finally came last weekend, the Gandhiose effort was a bit of a flop. When his silent horde of 3,000 arrived outside the Ministry of Defense to squat on the cold pavement, the box formation of 400 bobbies perversely refused to touch a soul. When the Russell forces prepared to tack their anti-nuclear declarations...
...Washington and flew out by helicopter for their first visit to Glen Ora, their rented estate in Middleburg. Va. The press was told that there would be no news, no tours of the house, precious few beds in the nearby Red Fox Tavern for stubborn reporters. There were no weekend visitors. One morning Jackie went riding on her bay gelding, Bit of Irish, over bridle paths that had been specially cleared of snow. For the Kennedys, Glen Ora visits will be one more front in the fight for privacy and informality...
...Angeles this year, the eight-team N.B.A. has become a truly national league. N.B.A. attendance, which jumped 23% last year, is up another 20% so far this season. Robertson's Royals, although last in their division, have already doubled last year's total attendance. Each weekend NBC-TV brings the pros' hell-bent skills into 12 million homes across the nation. From its TV contract the N.B.A. makes well over $500,000 and the league is comfortably in the black. Says N.B.A. President Maurice Podoloff, a 5-ft. 3-in. man who looks round and bouncy enough...
Virginia's Allegheny Mountains, 160 miles southwest of Washington, where snow usually comes only in unreliable flurries, seems an unlikely spot for a ski resort. Yet last weekend the stately rooms of The Homestead resort were crowded with the parka-and-stretch-pants set. It is the Southland's winter sport resort, and one thing is sure: there should always be snow. Reason: snow machines, an expensive network of pipes, hoses and nozzles lining the ski trails. Water, atomized by a compressed air blast, turns into snow crystals as it sprays out into below-freezing temperatures. Not only...