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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seventh day of the crusade, Richard Nixon made an extraordinary appearance at the stadium, stopping off en route to a Memorial Day weekend at San Clemente. Without arguing with his old friend, Nixon suggested that all the nation's serious ills are curable without divine intervention. It was the President's first appearance before a campus audience since U.S. troops marched into Cambodia, but of course this audience was more fundamentalist than collegiate. Perhaps 500 protesters in the stands flourished signs that read THOU SHALT NOT KILL. But the vast majority of the congregation drowned out the antiwar...
...Lindsay. Union leaders rarely have any difficulty in turning out big crowds−especially on a spring day and at full pay. But more significantly, blue-collar workers are apparently discovering, as countless college students have found, that there is a certain satisfaction in the camaraderie of expressing feelings en masse and in catching the nation's attention. The beleaguered John Lindsay aptly pointed up the benefits of this when he congratulated the workers on their "spirited and orderly" protest and urged them to "uphold the right of other groups to demonstrate peacefully too−for this...
...Revisionist. Earlier this year, China slowly began repairing bridges burned during the Cultural Revolution. As often as not, Peking's maneuvers were designed to steal a march on Moscow. Two months ago, Premier Chou En-lai flew to Pyongyang to embrace North Korean Leader Kim II Sung, who had been branded a "fat revisionist" by Maoist Red Guards in more extremist years. Peking then agreed to exchange ambassadors with the original revisionist capital, Belgrade...
...When the Maoists had been driven out, the floor was awash in vintage wine and pear brandy. Next day young Maoists, sweeping into the slums of Ivry-sur-Seine and Nanterre and a shantytown near Bugnolet, grandly distributed tins of foie gras truffé, caviar, pâté en croûte, marrons glacés, and grand cru to wash it down...
...high-top shoes mossy with age. The language is English, the rhythms Irish, the author unmistakable: "Dying is such a long tiresome business I always find." Down front, standing in the third row, the world-famous recluse is silhouetted against the light, angular with shy intellection, gray hair en brosse, the jug ears set low, long left arm and skinny hand reaching up, pointing out how it should...