Word: hughs
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Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey, who conveys his impressions of the conference in this week's "Presidency" column, found lowered spirits and expectations in Vienna, a marked contrast to the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit he covered there in 1961. "Kennedy flew to Vienna with authority and respect," he recalls. "His jet was new. He was new. The world was in love with him. How different now. The U.S. has self-doubt. Carter is down. The world is far more somber and less prone to laughter." Yet Sidey believes that the first meeting of Brezhnev and Carter had both promise...
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...into that "double bed" above the Attorney General's office, which had been "the historic scene of demanding if unofficial activities of Smythe's predecessors, their high-ranking brothers and sundry surrogates." Yes, the rumored past meshes readily with the fictional future as Ehrlichman's President Hugh Frankling faces the danger in 1981 of becoming "the third elected President in a row" to resign from office. Ehrlichman never explains how or why the second, Jimmy Carter, was pushed...
...Friday, Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, will debate Harvard divestiture at the Science Center with Mark Smith, '72-4, the spokesman for the anti-apartheid movement at the dedication of the K-School last fall...
...Victor Atiyeh complained that Carter's decision to help California was a "slap in the face" to other Governors who have been urging less driving in order to conserve gasoline. Illinois Governor James Thompson, for example, requested motorists to drive no faster than 50 m.p.h. New York Governor Hugh Carey asked motorists to cut their driving this month by 100 miles, which would enable them to save seven gallons of gasoline each. The New England Council, a Boston-based booster group, has proposed that everyone abstain from driving one day a week. To those who took the pledge...