Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the new gentleman caller, Jimmy Carter went visiting the old Democratic power structure in Washington last week, a bouquet of primary victories under his arm. The night before his smashing victory in Illinois, he courted 30 heavyweight Democrats and journalists over dinner at the Georgetown home of Liberal Columnist Clayton Fritchey. The guests included Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, CBS Commentator Eric Sevareid, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, former Xerox Corp. Chairman Sol Linowitz and former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. Moving from table to table between courses, Carter charmed nearly everyone and surprised many with his grasp of the issues...
...rift and pledged to strengthen Soviet-Egyptian relations. The U.S. was quietly delighted by Moscow's discomfort, especially because Cairo editorials likened the Soviet failure to honor the treaty to an old debacle in Egyptian-U.S. relations: the refusal by John Foster Dulles two decades ago to arm Egypt or finance the Aswan High Dam, which prompted Gamal Abdel Nasser to turn East and open Egypt to Soviet influence...
Many educators agree with James R. Gass, head of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's educational-research arm: "Educational action to prepare for work and active life should aim less at training young people to practice a given trade or profession than at equipping them to adapt themselves to a variety of jobs." According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the typical American changes his job seven times during his lifetime, and his career three times. Francis Fisher, director of Harvard's career services office, goes further, arguing that "we must break the assumption that...
...Government slipped away. There were days when he did not come over from the mansion until noon. Once, almost at the end, he was heard saying "Goodbye" to the portraits of his predecessors on the White House walls. He cried as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger held his arm and assured him that his great deeds in foreign affairs would survive the upheaval. Close to the end, he broke down and asked Kissinger to join him on his knees in the little office just off the Oval. "You are not a very orthodox Jew and I am not an orthodox...
...Park Square, a woman was waiting for an Ashmont car with what looked like a stewardess outfit folded neatly over her arm. She said her name was Pat and she was not a stewardess, but a guard for American Airlines. The insignia on her uniform said SECURITY...