Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berlin: facing down the Russkies--who, with Stalin as Dreamer-in-Chief, were surely well-caught in their own ghastly dream. Our dream led right into the '60s, helped create the '60s, created or helped create the shell through which the blacks and chicanos and antiwar protesters had to break--in fact, still have to break: an eggshell dream...
Vexing Matters. Rosalynn put her personal touch on the trip, employing a specially designed monogram (see picture) that was put on everything from press kits to baggage tags. Occasionally she would break the ice at her meetings by speaking Spanish. TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, who accompanied her, reports that she moved quickly and easily into discussions with her hosts about such vexing matters as U.S.-Cuban relations, economic policies and military aid. Said a top White House aide: "Jimmy wants to show these countries that he cares about them and is interested in their problems. In his mind, the best...
...RHODES SCHOLAR. It took the British Parliament to break Cecil Rhodes's will, but this year, for the first time, 13 of the 32 American Rhodes scholars are women, and one of them is Catherine Burke, 22, a Middle Eastern specialist at the University of Virginia. She wrote her prize-winning 157-page senior thesis on the Lebanese civil war. On the 'side, she co-founded a model United Nations at U.Va. and captained the women's fencing team. She hand-letters medieval-style manuscripts for "relaxation" and this summer plans to take a course in Arabic...
...grinch who stole Castro is Bill Moyers, the former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson who a year ago left public television to become chief correspondent for CBS Reports. He did not set out to make Castro break his promise, but when Moyers was in Cuba last January filming a documentary, Castro showed up and wanted to talk-for 15½ hours, it turned out. Not to worry, Barbara. Says Moyers: "Even if Castro had come out and told me that he personally handed the rifle to Lee Harvey Oswald, our interviews wouldn't be competitive...
...opportunity to get involved." A senior official at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo told TIME last week that 86 U.S. importers-presumably distributors and retailers, including some well-known chain stores-are under investigation. Worried embassy officials concede that they are convinced a major scandal is about to break...