Date (happened)
25 December 1965
(probable)
passage 534256 (lecture nid 1237), 'a friend of ours gave us for Christmas the Sunday issue of the New York Times'
Told / reported
4 February 1966
delivery claims on lecture nid 1237: catalog #314 gives 1966-02-04 (certain, preferred), independently corroborated by a chrome dateline (d1) '2/4/66' and a weekday check (Friday, one of Neville's regular lecture nights)
A friend gave Neville and his wife a subscription to the Sunday New York Times as a Christmas gift. The paper, which usually arrived on Wednesdays or Thursdays, had come the day before this lecture, and its back editorial page reported on a recent gathering of scientists at the New York Hilton discussing their theories about the nature of the world.