Word: courteousely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father's quixotic crusade for retaking the mainland, insisting instead that the people of China will some day rise up and overthrow the Communists. Former President Nixon's 1972 journey to Peking produced dismay and anxiety on Taiwan. Since then, U.S.-Taiwan relations have stabilized; they are courteous, if not quite so close as before. For his part, Chiang Ching-kuo is relieved that Washington shows no present inclination to meet Peking's demand that the U.S. sever diplomatic ties with Taipei...
...beyond their years. They lead the circumscribed life of performing artists. "Whenever I get on a plane, I always hope it will be to explore a new city," says Kyung-Wha. "Instead, I must be content to explore a new audience." Their personalities are similar only in a courteous sense of selfimportance. Myung-Whun is intense, Kyung-Wha fiery, and Myung-Wha pacific. When family frictions do arise, the Chungs may find their strongest bond in their individual ability to make shafts of sound seem more vivid than anything else in life...
Surprisingly, though most of the passengers were members of the geriatric generation, not a one of them panicked as the great ship wallowed uneasily in the swells. Photographer Mike Palmeri, a passenger whose pictures appear on the opposite page, gives credit to an unflappable, infinitely courteous crew and to the infectious good spirits of a jolly band of American professional football stars-headed by Kansas City Chiefs...
...award, going to the collegiate cage team in the nation with the most courteous manners on the hardwood, will be presented to the Crimson April 6 in New York. Sanders will not be present to pick up the trophy, however, because he will announce a Celtics playoff game in Buffalo that night for a local TV station, he said...
Shultz, a mild-mannered and courteous man who nevertheless argued his free-market principles with surpassing stubbornness, came to that authority by his loyalty to the President and skill at tacking; he is the last member of the original Nixon Cabinet still in high office. Shultz was dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business when he was named the Administration's first Secretary of Labor in 1968. After serving with quiet competence in that job, he was put in charge of the newly created Office of Management and Budget...