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...Congress, there were mixed feelings among Israel's traditional supporters. "You can cut the gloom up here with a knife," said Illinois Senator Charles Percy. "There is great skepticism about this new Premier." Percy felt that concern would translate into greater senatorial support for moves by Carter to put pressure on Israel to go to Geneva. Washington does have a number of exploitable pressure points ?most notably, the outstanding Israeli requests for military aid. Jerusalem wants American assistance in building its new Chariot tanks, and it wants F-16 fighters as eventual replacements for its Phantoms. On the nonmilitary...
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...first and third singles matches were halted because of impending gloom. Sally Roberts and Denise Thal played their doubles matches before their solo contests and ended up ahead in only one of the three encounters...
...Story begins in June 1969, 18 months after the death of Oliver's wife Jenny. Oliver Barrett IV has turned his back on his proper Boston family and an impressive textile fortune, and sunk himself into the defense of civil liberties, a basement apartment in Manhattan-and gloom. He goes to parties and he sits. When friends introduce him to pretty girls, he glowers and storms away. Finally, jogging in Central Park, he sees Miss Right II, a beautiful blonde named Marcie Nash, who captures his fancy by running faster than he does. They have dinner...
Ginger Cookies. What can a poor legendmaker do with a late 20th century woman whose avowed model is Queen Victoria? By way of apology, Lacey theorizes that the sepulchral gloom of blacked-out Windsor Castle during World War II helped turn a "serious child into a serious girl." Certainly nobody could work harder than Lacey to put a little color in the girl's cheeks. He makes the most of her first meeting at 13, over ginger cookies and lemonade, with the brilliantly blue-eyed naval cadet who was to become her husband. Whenever possible the subject is shown...