Word: grave
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Odious Lie. From the beginning, the Israeli government maintained an outward calm that made a convincing show of its self-confidence. Prime Minister Golda Meir went on the air in late afternoon to assure her countrymen that "grave losses have been inflicted on the enemy." Her voice was firm, but she spoke in more measured and deeper tones than usual. "We have no doubts as to our victory," she said. "But it is our belief that this renewal of Egyptian-Syrian aggression is an act of madness...
PETER YARROW, AS an aspiring solo artist, faced a grave problem. A year and a half ago, he said he had ideas of following in the path of men like Pete Seeger, writing, as he still does, idealistic songs of love and the search for peace to add to the canon of traditional folk. But P, P & M-style arrangements were no longer the language of national sentiments. That musical language had shifted to rock...
...Records did a grave disservice by releasing only instrumental sections of The Tempest. Cutting the vocal sections was an obvious budgeting move that was grossly inartistic. The songs were essential to the work. They are embarrassingly similar to operetta and their beauty is just as impressive...
Attorney General Elliot Richardson rushed to Petersen's defense, calling him "a distinguished Government lawyer with more than two decades of prosecutorial experience." Moreover, he noted pointedly: "Experienced though he may be, he does not have sole responsibility ... for criminal matters of grave importance. In such matters the decisional process is shared, and the final responsibility is the Attorney General's." Despite that defense of his deputy, TIME has learned that Richardson initially did have doubts about Petersen's Watergate performance. But prompt high public praise of Petersen by White House officials, including the President, had made...
Meanwhile, Columbus was back, after a fashion, in the New World. Two small crystal lockets containing some of the dust from his Spanish grave were up for auction at Manhattan's Sotheby Parke-Bernet. The pair is expected to bring...