Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minority Leader Howard Baker got the message and was soon talking com promise himself. He set up a Republican task force to study Byrd's proposals. "It is pretty clear now that something might be worked out," said Baker. "It is more than likely that there will be a meeting of minds." Was the majority leader bluffing about his new strategy? Nobody knew for sure, but nobody was willing to challenge his authority. In short, the Senate of the 96th Congress was in business...
...Peking last week, Teng also seemed to be preparing carefully for his visit. He disappeared from public sight, presumably to clear his desk and bone up on the U.S. Though he is expected to make some sharply anti-Soviet comments while on U.S. soil, he is unlikely to repeat either the phrasing or the tone of his last public speech in the U.S., at a U.N. forum in 1974. Then he ridiculed U.S. efforts to search for peace, blasted "the two superpowers," and pronounced that, in the world as a whole, "revolution is the main trend." With his skillful sense...
King Zharko (Sterling Hayden), leader of New York's gypsies, has an idiotic son and a clever grandson. From the beginning it is obvious that Dave (Eric Robert), the grandson, will become king. It is equally clear, though, that he doesn't want any part of king-ship...
Although Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty, is optimistic that the legislation will clear the Faculty in the spring, other Faculty CUE members are not so sure...
...possible to ignore the moral issues that West himself raises and then drops, Proteus can be clear sailing. Connoisseurs of page-turners will feel right at home in a world where a woman can still be described as a "leggy redhead," where grins are "crooked," where a Jewish character says "oy vay" and a Scotsman says...