Word: chillness
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...thermometer on the bank across the street read 18 degrees and winds added a biting chill, but 4000 spectators still overflowed the square to sing and cheer through. "This Land is Your Land" and "Blowin' in the Wind...
Reagan sought to bring about a thaw in the superpower chill when he acknowledged in a speech last month that "our working relationship with the Soviet Union is not what it must be." By that time, all hope for a summit between Reagan and Andropov had passed. A final interview published under Andropov's name in Pravda offered no new counterproposal for breaking the deadlock. Instead, it repeated earlier calls for the U.S. and its NATO allies to "display readiness" to return to the situation that had existed before missiles were deployed in Western Europe...
...DEATH OF THE Soviet Union's most mysterious and short-lived ruler Yuri V. Andropov was announced last week, leaving his successes a myriad of domestic and foreign policy problems, not the least of which is the current chill in superpower relations. While it is hard to mourn a man for all intents and purposes dead for several months--who became a frightening parody of the fabled Big Brother of George Orwell's 1984. Andropov's death serves as a depressing reminder of how little progress the U.S. and the Soviet Union have made in this decade...
...host of the conference, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, said that he did not expect a "rapid thaw" in the superpower chill but he could at least foresee "some cautious melting." The Shultz and Gromyko meeting in Stockholm seemed too tentative to serve as a reliable marker on the road back to a warmer U.S.-Soviet climate. But more warmth is wanted...
...catch up. Long controlled by several venerable clubs around Lake Placid, U.S. bobsledding has become parochial and, some critics claim, possibly racist. Efforts to add speedier newcomers have prompted tensions. Blacks, notably Gold Medalist Hurdler Willie Davenport, who competed in 1980, have not been warmly welcomed to the chill upstate New York Olympic site. But the prime reason for America's slide from gold is less-than-state-of-the-art equipment. After a typical defeat in an international meet last year, novice Pusher Joe Briski, 28, encountered an East German who told him, "You Americans can send...