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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later Thursday evening, while the President was still en route from Key Biscayne back to Washington, the first glamour event of the week, a "Salute to the States," opened at the Kennedy Center. It was aimed at the nation's Governors-40 of whom showed up. To accommodate the almost 5,000 other guests-including Pat Nixon, daughter Julie, and Mamie Eisenhower-a 2˝hr, show ran simultaneously in two separate halls. Eminent emcees Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope scrambled on and off stages in an admirable attempt to provide equal time to all. Breaking out of his retirement once...
...while, it seemed that the bugles might blow forever. Tanaka wrapped up two major foreign policy missions that had eluded his cautious predecessor, Eisaku Sato: a reasonably successful meeting of the minds with Richard Nixon on U.S.-Japanese economic matters in Hawaii, and a historic summit with Chou En-lai in Peking. Tanaka was all over the headlines, the TV tube and even the bestseller lists -with an imaginative-sounding but ghostwritten book entitled A Plan for Remodeling the Japanese Archipelago, which offered some slick, idyllic proposals for controlling the country's urban sprawl...
...failure even before it really got off the ground-principally by ex-Jesuit Garry Wills in an acerbic 1971 piece in New York magazine. Wills' article (currently a chapter in his book Bare Ruined Choirs) was made even more damaging by the accompanying photos of seminarians lounging en deshabille. It undercut Woodstock's hopes and image at a crucial time...
...been assigned to guard the Jordanian embassy last week, London Constable Peter Slimon did something most unusual for a bobby: he armed himself. En route to the embassy he encountered a bank stickup and pulled his revolver. In the ensuing gunfight one of the bandits wounded Slimon-but not before the bobby had killed one of the robbers...
Even in such a relatively benign matter as the release of eleven U.S. flyers shot down over China during the Korean War, John Foster Dulles first urged Hammarskjöld to intervene, then refused to allow their families to travel to Peking at Chou En-lai's behest. As a result the flyers' release was delayed eight months. Chou chose Hammarskjöld's birthday as the time to hand them over...