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...last week's party for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, she pored over The Story of the Gettysburg Address and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Her dinner partner, Senator Edmund Muskie, gently interrupted her reading to coax her to eat her spinach timbale. Later, with a flourish, Amy gave Muskie a souvenir-her place card, on which she had inscribed EAT YOUR SPINACH. Perhaps Amy will start a trend. Asked Washington Post Columnist Judith Martin: "If the book was better than the table conversation, which is certainly possible on state occasions, why can't everyone bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1977 | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...secure" frontiers, there has been no consensus on what constitutes security. The Israelis' meaning has generally been indicated by the pattern of their settlements in the occupied lands: the former Arab sector of Jerusalem has been annexed and declared Israel's undivided capital; 32 Israeli villages now flourish on the West Bank of the Jordan, and most Israeli leaders insist on retaining that river as their eastern border; Israeli settlements have begun mushrooming in the Sinai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: After the Vance Mission: Signs of Hope | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...more snap and ginger in the U.S. economy but also to seek to orchestrate a revival throughout the rest of the industrialized world as well. Cooper's chief economic credo: No nation is an economic island; all are a part of an interacting global process. For one to flourish, the others must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Man with a Message | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...permeated with explicit violence. In the course of the story innumerable people are shot, knifed, burned and run over. Unfortunately, the people who form the market for these movies have demonstrated time and time again that violence sells. As long as moviegoers support violent films, the genre will flourish...

Author: By Jay Yeager, | Title: How The Bad Guys Finally Won | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Before trysting with spectres, however, we should concede that even origin in an unusually unprincipled and anti-democratic government does not mean that black evil along crouches on the KTA gift. KTA, all Koreans and scholars of Korea, including myself, share a determination to see studies of Korean culture flourish independently of (though cooperatively with) Japanese and Chinese studies as is due the durable and unique culture of a nation paralleling Italy and Spain in recent importance. KTA officials have pressed this claim with dignity as well as funds; all with reck of cultural values and international peace should applaud...

Author: By Gregory Henderson, | Title: Harvard's Korean Grant: Dreams of Reason and Spectres | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

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