Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist will discuss "Vietnam: What Went Wrong" at 8 p.m. on January 10 in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Word of Hanoi's power play reached Kissinger in Washington at 2 a.m. He called Nixon immediately. The next morning, the two met to discuss the U.S. response, and agreed that Kissinger would go on TV to give the Administration's version. The important thing, they agreed, was to maintain the momentum of peace. Kissinger was thus to address himself primarily to Saigon and Hanoi. With that in mind, he hardly considered the elation his words would cause in the U.S., and was surprised by it, he later admitted. Nixon specifically approved Kissinger's language...
...black holes" have become a subject for metaphysical conjecture. Harvard Astronomer Charles A. Whitney, writing in his 1971 book The Discovery of Our Galaxy, suggests that black holes might be "the passageways to another universe," a possibility that throws him back on the language of religion. "When I discuss such subjects with my friends and family," Whitney writes, "I feel as though I were trying to convince them of the existence of God." Western religions themselves are seeking a renewed sense of cosmic purpose by exploring their rich but long-neglected traditions of mysticism and contemplation...
Like the thousands of wives and parents who share her plight, Mrs. Rander has endured years of frustrated effort in her husband's behalf. Three years ago, at Nixon's invitation, she went to Washington with other P.O.W. wives to discuss what the President termed "the distressing situation of our captured and missing servicemen." Since then both she and her daughters have exchanged letters with the White House, desperate pleas answered with slender hopes...
...looks like a cross between Pollock's Toy Museum and a penny arcade. Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), a London hairdresser whose parents were Italian and-worse yet-Jewish, is the lover of Wyke's estranged wife. He comes by Wyke's stately home one afternoon to discuss a divorce. Wyke instead presses him into an intricate plot to defraud an insurance company. Shaffer would have us believe that one man. wanting another's wife, could easily be persuaded to dress up in a clown's outfit and stumble about, under the husband...