Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Review, which had hoped to break even four years ago. is now running on an annual budget donated by the SAC in addition to its ad and subscription revenues, James H. Tucker, a law school representative on the SAC, said yesterday...
...thinks it could have been a gunshot. Nixon laughs. "With all these Secret Service men around, don't worry about it," he assures Frost. "One of these days I'll give you a lecture on security." After two hours of one session, Frost suggests that Nixon might want a break. Nixon looks at the technicians, and jokes: "Those guys look pretty well fed to me. They can hold out for another hour." The taping resumes. Nixon is described by one adviser as "ebullient" at his ability to handle the questions. Adds one intimate: "It sounds odd to put it this...
...crucial turnabout for Frost came during an agreed-upon seven-day Easter break in the interviewing. It was then that his staff was close to panic. Frost later conceded that he was "genuinely daunted before Easter" by Nixon. Frost had been partying as usual, leaving one taping to don a tux and emcee the Hollywood premiere of a movie he had helped produce. But then came the baiting challenge from Birt before the birthday party and a telling jest in one of the songs sung that night in Frost's honor. To the tune of Love and Marriage, it went...
Human Rights. Washington professed no great surprise at the near break in Ethiopian-American relations. The break had been foreshadowed in December, when the Soviet Union by all accounts agreed to supply Mengistu's regime with some $100 million in arms. As one State Department official observed, "They couldn't be taking Soviet money and keep walking around in our G.I. fatigues." Although the U.S. has a major radio relay station outside Asmara, Washington had planned to shut down the facility in September and turn its functions over to satellites...
...seems dimmed. Simms displays a kind of rock lyricism, but he is a figure without impact. "This person," he says of his girl friend, "is bound to have something to do with me. I mean it ain't love, but what is it? Worse than love, harder to break. Like we had to wear each other through, work something out, I don't know...