Word: firsthand
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Indeed, Kissinger had decided on his response even before he could gauge firsthand the reaction in the U.S. to the collapse of his attempt to negotiate another Israeli-Egyptian disengagement. During a stopover at London's Heathrow Airport, he assured British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan that "if the President wants me to stay, I shall regard it as my duty to do so." As far as anyone can tell, Kissinger retains Gerald Ford's full support. Nonetheless, the Secretary of State faces a time of testing and questioning...
...recent theft of three masterworks from the Ducal Palace in Urbino, Italy (see ART), stirred the rage of TIME Critic Robert Hughes. Born in Australia, Hughes left home to study painting and sculpture in Italy. While living in the Tuscany region in 1964-65, Hughes learned firsthand the wanton nature of art thieves when they made off with the head of a statue of St. Paul in a church he often visited. Hughes traced the head as far as a "respectable" art dealer in Basel, Switzerland, but it was never returned to the church. Such theft, in his view...
...seek information from the best sources available to TIME. Arrangements for the tour were made by Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Assistant Publisher Lane Fortinberry, with the help of TIME bureau chiefs in the Middle East. For the travelers, the tour provided a unique opportunity to learn firsthand about a geopolitically vital region, and to pose hard questions to heads of state on oil and investment policy, petrodollar recycling and the prospects for war or peace. The access granted to the group by Middle East rulers was well merited; collectively, the businessmen on the TIME tour represented companies that...
...disappointment, but I think understandable. Everybody had ample gasoline, or even in some selected areas price wars, which certainly is not an indication of any lack of supply. What I am saying is,that the American people don't respond unless they see firsthand a crisis. Now, that may come. If we get some of these natural-gas shortages, which are inevitable up in New Jersey and New England, particularly if we have a hard winter, then again that crisis will be thrown at the American people and maybe a voluntary program will be regenerated...
...press is gratuitously contributing to bearishness. For the most part, however, the press has avoided wallowing in gloom. Nor have many publications been suffused with optimism-an attitude that most readers would reject anyway now that both Alan Greenspan, the President's chief economic adviser, and their own firsthand experience warn them that harder times are ahead...