Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tougher than even he may think. His meeting with the leaders was only a prelude to the turbulent battles that will now begin over national priorities-battles between, to take one mighty example, those who want to cut the fat from social programs they feel have not worked well and those who want to search for lard in the military's billions. Carter's State of the Union address and his budget message would serve as the wick to ignite for the congressional session ahead all the contending political factions and the brawling special-interest groups...
Well, no. A night's sleep, a warm bright morning and a big grits breakfast begin to focus facts. The breakfast (paper plate, plastic knife and fork) is at the Kountry Korner Restaurant. I've been advised that a trace of old Plains may be found here. And here indeed is more than a trace: eight middle-aged farmers at one long table talking land, bean planting, the future of Taiwan ("You think the Taiwans got a word to say about it? Think 1 billion can't take 17 million any day they want...
...many people often overlook the continual development of the armed forces of the Soviet Union and its stockpiling of conventional weaponry, including ammunition, as well as the stockpiling of food grains. If one has so many things in one's hands, the day will come when one's fingers begin to itch. You can't eat those materials or wear them. You must use them somehow. We've already been through two world wars, and both started from small incidents. Such things often develop independent of one's will, perhaps even independent of the will of the present Soviet leaders...
...women begin their second year in Division I with a thin but talented squad. Captain Vera Fajtova and Kris Hodgkins lead the alpiners, while cross-country captain Maureen Devlin heads a nordic contingent that will miss Judy Rabinowitz, who has taken leave from Harvard to join the U.S. team...
...Vallets consider themselves peasants, and in a way they are. They begin work each day at 7:15 a.m. and continue until 8 p.m., breaking only for lunch. For six days each week they worked like that, and on the seventh day they rest--and a much-needed rest...