Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including the future role of Major Saad Haddad, a renegade Lebanese army officer who is Israel's best friend in Lebanon. But negotiations are moving so quickly that the two sides have scheduled four meetings for this week instead of the usual two. Israeli officials declared after the 27th round of talks that they were hopeful of an agreement in the "near future," perhaps by the end of the month. By then, however, it may be too late to persuade Arafat to support Hussein in giving negotiations with Israel and the U.S. a chance...
Both newspapers reported that Edward Cattan, who jumped to his death Saturday from the 27th floor of the Sherry Netherlands Hotel was a Harvard student...
Here is a bright man who, a year ago, in his 27th coaching season but only his third year as a head coach in the N.F.L., was artistically helping to reshape his sport. Last week he was fervently hoping to locate an aspiring head coach skilled enough to allow Walsh, at 51, to leave the field in good conscience and concentrate on the comparatively serene work of general managing. "Hard, executive work," he allows, "with long hours here and there, and a certain amount of travel. But no experiences like San Diego." Should he be unable to find or convince...
...house, a town, a neighborhood, a state, a country, a room. Home can be wherever one feels at home, and even a scrap of a place can mobilize that homey feeling. The old standard Autumn in New York plausibly evokes a person looking down on the metropolis from the 27th floor of a hotel to find that the "glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel-they're making me feel I'm home." Plausible? In London, Thornton Wilder once provoked astonishment by referring to his temporary accommodations as home. How use the hallowed word to refer...
...Most top officials in the country's ruling bodies are the same age as the majority of Politburo members: in their 60s and 70s. Roy Medvedev, the independent-minded Marxist historian living in Moscow, believes that younger men will move into top positions around the time of the 27th Communist Party Congress in 1985. "The political wheels grind very slowly in our country," he says. "A man who suddenly comes out of nowhere, like Jimmy Carter, is an American phenomenon. Here it's like the army. You rise through the ranks, and nobody's going to put a general...