Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Humphrey and other stars. The schools folded when the couple separated in 1931. After that Shawn attacked the male dancer's lavender image by selecting college athletes for an all-male dance troupe that toured the country under his direction. He later staged the annual dance festival at Jacob's Pillow near Lee, Mass...
...seems odd to emphasize personal jockeying, it won't after you've read the book. For only the personalities emerge from it with some clarity and vigor. You may not find much important about The Virgin and the Gypsy and Five Easy Pieces from Penelope Gilliatt's and Jacob Brackman's respective reviews in the New Yorker and Esquire, but you will remember that the critics write long summaries in seamless prose, and are apt to get a bit drippy when the right nerve-end is touched. You might remember even more: that Gilliatt likes cultural detachment and civility...
...United Nations delegation. Since then, Brooke has opposed the Administration on major issues-the SST, the ABM, the Haynsworth and Carswell Supreme Court nominations. Last week he announced that he will vote against confirming William Rehnquist for the court. Despite such abrasions, however, the President, as New York Senator Jacob Javits observes, "has always been intrigued by Brooke...
...Congress the once overpowering opposition to devaluation has all but vanished. Republican Senator Jacob Javits and Democratic Representative Henry Reuss have introduced a bill empowering Nixon to devalue the dollar as much as 10% by raising the official price of gold. Says Reuss: "If the President asked us for it tomorrow, we would pass it by the middle of next week. We would need only one day of hearings...
...powers sought some way to defuse the explosive confrontation. On Thanksgiving Day, Richard Nixon phoned Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath. The President discussed the Indian-Pakistani situation with the British leader, as well as their decision to meet in Bermuda in December. U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Jacob Beam visited the Soviet Foreign Ministry twice during the week to urge the Russians, who had become India's chief sponsors, to help stop the fighting...