Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kearns has taken the year off to finish the book and iron out her personal problems. (It is her second leave in three years.) She is on probation now. If she had kept her name out of the newspapers and waited several months before announcing a change of plans, she would have been beyond the reach of the department. Instead she was caught in the twilight area between the time the department votes tenure and the administration and the Corporation approve it. The impetus for the May reconsideration reportedly came from the administration, and it is between the dean...
...Lord Halifax and Winston Churchill. Under a cloud after the Nazi-Soviet pact and Stalin's 1939 invasion of Finland, he rebounded to become one of London's social lions when Hitler attacked Russia in 1941. A superb p.r. man, Maisky donated the Soviet embassy's iron railing to Britain's wartime scrap drive and was once serenaded with the Internationale by British armament workers. Returning in 1943 to serve as Stalin's Deputy Foreign Minister, Maisky attended the Yalta and Potsdam conferences before finishing his career as an academic specialist in Far East history...
Despite détente, the Iron Curtain is still a forbidding barrier for Eastern Europeans who would like to live in the West. To penetrate it, desperate refugees swim rivers, crawl under barriers or run a murderous gauntlet of barbed wire, savage patrol dogs and armed guards. One of the boldest escapes of all was carried out last week by an American pilot, Barry Meeker, who whisked three escapees from Czechoslovakia by helicopter...
...subject, the world of the American rich and the clash between new and old money. On her native ground she has never been matched, and no other American has ever portrayed so well the sometimes savage drama of life behind the damask draperies of Fifth Avenue and the wrought-iron gates of Newport. By the time of The House of Mirth in 1905, she was recognized as a major novelist and, as an aging Henry James grew silent, she took his place as the preeminent American writer, a position she held for nearly 25 years, until...
...have shown in more concrete ways that they will not allow their anger to stand in the way of their self-interest. Since January, they have been signing deals with U.S. companies, both well-known and obscure. Some samples: a $50 million order to Allis-Chalmers Corp. for an iron-ore pelletizing plant, a $47 million contract with Gould Inc. for a plant to produce heavy-duty engine bearings, a $21 million order for Caterpillar bulldozers and a $7 million contract with General Instrument Corp. for technical assistance and equipment for manufacturing hand-held calculators. On the consumer front...