Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months ago the Shah began suffering chills, fever, weight loss and jaundice. As his health deteriorated, the State Department gave him a temporary (one year) visa to enter the U.S., on condition that he refrain from any political activity and not seek permanent asylum. ''We are certainly not going to hound a sick man,'' said State Department Spokesman David Passage...
...paddle his own canoe in the West, Vladas Cesiunas, 39, slipped away from a Soviet sports team at Frankfurt airport in August, while en route to the World Canoe Championships in Duisburg. A gold medal winner in the 1972 Olympics, the Soviet canoeing star was quickly granted political asylum in West Germany, and thus became the first of the well-known Soviet sport and dance personalities who have defected to the West in the past two months, a group that includes Bolshoi Ballet Star Alexander Godunov and Skaters Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova...
...that point, as Brooks phrases it, "the inmates took over the asylum." Tinker, the perfect boss, gave his writers nearly total freedom, and the result was not only The MTM Show, but eventually Rhoda and the Lou Grant show. Brooks, Weinberger and a fellow writer-producer, Stan Daniels, went their own amicable way in 1977 and formed the partnership that has produced The Associates and Taxi. If The Associates survives its early low ratings, Brooks' income will rise faster than the price of gold...
DIED. Elizabeth Bishop, 68, poet whose 1955 Poems: North and South-A Cold Spring won a Pulitzer Prize; of a stroke; in Boston. Bishop's childhood was tragic: her father died before she was one, and her mother was confined to an insane asylum. As an undergraduate at Vassar in the early 1930s, Bishop befriended future Novelist Mary McCarthy and established Poet Marianne Moore. After graduation, she began a life of wandering that included stays in Mexico, Europe, North Africa and Brazil, her home for 18 years. Precise observations of her adopted lands, reflected in a personal but distanced...
...cause of particular consternation in the Soviet Union, where the husband-and-wife couple were among the country's most honored athletes. They had vanished at the end of a four-week exhibition tour of West Germany and Switzerland. When it was reported that they had requested political asylum in Switzerland, shock waves struck Moscow. Said a stunned and baffled Soviet sports official: "For sports personalities of their caliber, there are no problems. They had everything they wanted here...