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...brand-new press club was to be specially opened for Carter's arrival. The government of Edward Gierek had high hopes that the visit would produce tangible benefits in trade and other economic exchanges. In Brazil, the change of plans added a layer of glare ice to an already chilly relationship. The Brazilians had hoped that Carter's visit would ease tensions-centering on nuclear proliferation and human rights-between the two countries. Carter created another kind of scheduling problem for himself in Paris. Unless he can cash his rain check by early 1978, the President will...
...hard to imagine that the boxer in the publicity photo with the Everlast trunks, coiled body, and baleful glare is the same Ronnie DiNicola sitting in the Lowell House dining room wearing a brown herringbone vest and smiling impishly...
They are the handicapped, brought from the obscurity of small, isolated institutions and private homes into the glare of Including Me, a television special being presented this week on 197 Public Broadcasting Service stations, plus a few commercial channels, all over the U.S. The hour-long program is an effort to publicize a new national law, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. It requires that handicapped children be given a free public education, as often as possible by "mainstreaming" them with normal children in regular classrooms. The legislation begins to go into effect this October, though schools will have...
...hotel, then to the airport. Reality never intruded, except when the schedule faltered. In a 1972 documentary, Elvis on Tour, there is a quick scene of Elvis, stranded on an airport runway, waiting for the gangway of his private plane to roll out. He is caught in the glare of sunlight, and he looks up in the sky with startled curiosity, as if surveying an alien planet...