Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abrupt change of plans, the Shah apparently will not be visiting the U.S., even though Washington had already arranged special security measures for him at the Palm Springs, Calif., estate of Millionaire Publisher Walter H. Annenberg. One reason given was that the Shah wanted to stay near Iran until the consequences of the Ayatullah Khomeini's return home became clear; if events went against the Shah, he might then take up residence somewhere in Europe. Privately, the Shah fears that he might be treated in the U.S. as a rich refugee rather than a visiting head of state...
DIED. F.W. Dupee, 74, literary critic and longtime professor of English at Columbia University (1948-71); of a drug overdose; in Carmel, Calif. A Chicago-born graduate of Yale who worked as a Marxist labor organizer in the 1930s, Dupee in 1937 helped recast as anti-Stalinist the Partisan Review, a radical literary magazine founded three years earlier. Eschewing his political extremism, he eventually achieved prominence as a Henry James scholar, popular poetry teacher and elegant writer on figures ranging from Sir Richard Burton to Charlie Chaplin...
John R. Brady Corte Madera, Calif...
...names. The Chinese had requested the opportunity of meeting "old friends" in the U.S., including former President Nixon, whose own visit to China in 1972 paved the way for U.S.-Chinese diplomatic normalization. In fact, Teng wanted to stop off at Nixon's home at San Clemente, Calif., a nightmarish thought to Carter's advisers.* As a compromise, the White House invited the former President to the state banquet for Teng in Washington on Jan. 29. Invitations were also sent to former President Gerald Ford and former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and William Rogers. Some initial reactions...
...surprised to learn that the acronym ECAR stands for East Central Reliability Council. While visiting Pebble Beach, Calif., I was informed that the Monterey Peninsula was peopled mostly by ECARs: Elderly. Conservative. Affluent Republicans...