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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he had received a message from Brezhnev indicating that improved U.S.-Peking ties would neither hurt SALT nor "endanger our good relationship with the Soviet Union," Moscow quickly pointed out that the note had also expressed reservations about the new American policy. According to Tass, Brezhnev had in fact warned that "the Soviet Union will most closely follow what the development of American-Chinese relations will be in practice...
Those who identified with Dean, therefore, did so very strongly, a minority cult whose time had not yet come. The fact that Dean died in a motorcycle crash at the age of 24, only served to intensify the cult of Dean. He began to be looked at as some sort of prophet rather than simply an actor; someone who had he lived would have not only portrayed, but solved many of the problems. People tried to get in touch with Dean's spirit; there were rumors that Dean was not really dead, but would one day return; red James Dean...
...federal government will probably approve in the next few weeks a low bid for the construction of the new Harvard Square subway station despite the fact the bid is 40 per cent above the estimate provided by a local consulting firm...
...theory, it is not a great leap from the North American chili-tortilla parlor to the true provincial cuisine of Mexico. In fact, it would take years for the most diligent gringo to understand or annotate this peasant-rooted cuisine of peppers and cornmeal, arroz, barbacoa and relleno. Diana Kennedy, English by birth and Mexicana by persuasion, invested a large part of her life tasting and testing south of the border to produce The Cuisines of Mexico in 1972. She spent five more years researching the 1978 followup, Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico (Harper & Row; 288 pages...
...securely into contemporary tradition that they seem less like the work of writers than the product of a shared musical history. That is as it should be, since Leiber and Stoller always worked best close to the roots. In a sense, they even became part of the roots, a fact richly demonstrated in a new book, Baby, That Was Rock & Roll (Harvest/HBJ; $6.95), that is part song compendium, part photo album, part biographical appreciation, and all long past...