Word: dle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that she is in generally good health and would have nothing to keep her busy if she retires. Another is that Mrs. Meir feels that only she can talk firmly to President Nixon during what may turn out to be a year of decision in the Mid dle East. Finally, she wants to forestall a bitter battle for the succession that might tumble Israel's tenuous governing coalition. Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, her choice, is the Labor Party king maker but has no voter popularity; if she turned over the job to him midway through her next term, Sapir...
...Administration has postponed a decision, partly because it sees the Mid dle East power balance differently from the Israelis, partly because it considers the Phantoms a useful lever for moving Israel into a Suez Canal agreement. The Phantom decision is still, so to speak, up in the air, but Jerusalem hopes for some progress when Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco makes a scheduled visit this week. "We don't expect Sisco to come flying over in a flotilla of Phantoms," says a government official. "But we do hope that he will come with words of encouragement...
...middle-aged American woman will ever forget the February of her years, when an undernourished kid with a big bow tie and an Adam's apple was the idol of all the bobby-socked, sad-dle-shoed groupies. Of course, they weren't called groupies then, and all they did was swoon. In the years since the 1940s, the kid put on weight-and threw it around like no other performer before or since. He was the Chairman of the Board of all show business. But last week Frank Sinatra, at 55, announced "effective immediately, my retirement from...
...present one. It will be able to accommodate all 150,000-ton ships as well as the U.S. Navy's 60,000-ton Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carriers, which are too wide for the present canal. The new canal will also have the potential to han dle 56,000 ships a year-twice today's maximum volume...
Stacked up against the chatter about "death, judgment, heaven and hell," Last Things unfairly seems a disappointment, more of the same old mumble-and-mud-dle-through. From the very beginning, however, Snow has always had a positive genius for making the wrong promises. He presented himself as a bridge builder between "two cultures," though readers can get more science from Ray Bradbury than from Snow. And just how would one build a bridge from 20th century science to the 19th century novel?-which, after all, is what Snow has been writing...