Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Big John, the slick Texan, swept into Washington last week and turned on his charm to sell his most cherished product: himself. Although John Connally's audience included more than 100 skeptical members of the National Press Gallery, even the clinking coffee cups were silenced. Still handsome and imposing despite the pounding of a topsy-turvy political career, Connally was in command...
Even as Connally made his big move, his chief competitors were also in Washington, using a meeting of the Republican National Committee as the occasion to rush through a series of cocktail parties, private chats with party pros and even gentle courtesy calls on each other. Eight announced or likely candidates visited the capital in four days...
...Arab neighbors by consorting with a pariah, had reluctantly invited the Shah to visit him for a day or two of "conferences." The press was barred from covering the royal arrival, and the Shah was whisked off to a palatial but isolated guest house called Jinan al-Kabir (the big garden), hidden by orange, olive and date trees in the immense palm grove that surrounds Marrakesh. Moroccan officials were dismayed when the Shah arranged for his four children to fly in from Texas, and when members of the Iranian entourage hinted that the Shah's "day or two" might...
...lkow-Blohm aerospace plant; Karl Hauffe, 65, head of the organic chemistry department at Göttingen University; Günter Sänger, 32, an engineer with the giant Siemens electronics corporation in Coburg; and Gerhard Arnold, 43, an executive of a Munich computer company. None was as big a fish as Günter Guillaume, longtime former aide to Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose arrest for spying in 1974 eventually forced an embarrassed Brandt to resign. But all were professional specialists working in sensitive areas. Hauffe apparently had been active as a spy since 1951, Arnold since...