Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the blacks' interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict heightened and the sympathies of their leaders beginning to tilt toward the Palestinians, a potentially powerful political force could emerge as a new domestic factor in U.S. policymaking for the Middle East. In the weeks ahead, however, Washington's course seems reasonably clear. The Administration is likely to await the outcome of the three-day summit between Begin and Sadat, scheduled to begin in Haifa the first week in September. A few days later Bob Strauss will return to the region to try to quicken the pace...
...Looking ahead to his run for the White House, Brown has formed a committee to raise funds, and he offers his first clear challenge to Carter when he goes to New Hampshire to campaign on Sept. 9. Later in the fall, he expects to campaign around the country. The Governor will also get a boost from the Haydens, who, starting at Three Mile Island in late September, will tour 50 cities with the occasional assistance of such notables as Cesar Chavez, Gloria Steinem and Jesse Jackson. Though they have not formally endorsed Brown for President, the Haydens consider...
...faring in New Hampshire; after the election, more thousands of words will explain the results. It will be pointed out that New Hampshire is singular for having no urban crises, no big racial minorities, only the granitic resolve to be counted first. Even such analysis (always project ahead!) will center on how New Hampshire's vote may affect the next states to ballot...
...know why the Green Beret went mad, the genesis of his large cult or even the identity of the many gruesome corpses and severed heads that lie strewn about his domain. Nor do we know why Willard, a sudden convert to Kurtz's undefined cause, goes ahead and kills him. By withholding this information, Coppola gives up his final chance to confront the issues his film initially intended to explore. The journey into America's Viet Nam madness-not to mention the journey into Willard's and Kurtz's souls-reaches its dead...
...1880s, when Entrepreneur Edward Clark broke ground west of Central Park at 72nd Street. Rich New Yorkers had never favored apartment living. The site was also so far north and west of fashionable society that it was nicknamed the Dakota after the remote Western territory. Yet Clark went ahead with his ersatz castle, variously described as German Renaissance and Victorian chateau. The architecture and appointments, as Birmingham puts it, were meant to "convey the impression that, though one might be living in an apartment house, one was really living in a mansion...