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Vail rises in a valley below the jagged Gore Range, and 15 years ago the area was nearly as empty as when the Utes roamed it in the days before the white man. It was developed by Peter Seibert, 48, a well-muscled, jovial man, who has dreamed of building a ski town ever since he was a boy in Bartlett...
From the moment he arrived in Moscow last week, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger was in a particularly jovial mood, summoning a wide smile to congratulate Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov on the Russians' surprise victory over the U.S. in Olympic basketball. Then he was driven to a big yellow villa in the Lenin Hills near Moscow State University to await the beginning of talks with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other top Kremlin leaders. Kissinger's early optimism proved justified. By the time he left Moscow four days later, he had helped reach agreement toward...
There is little hostility to the Humphrey campaign. Occasionally a jovial supporter will cry out "Give 'em hell, Hubert!" particularly when Humphrey compares himself with Harry Truman. Sometimes a few young people show up at Humphrey rallies carrying McGovern banners. They usually kibitz, with shouts of "What about the war, Humphrey?" But Humphrey has a thick skin. Always the tireless campaigner, he usually tries to pump every hand in sight. At a Chicano rally in East Los Angeles, he vigorously attempted to shake hands with members of the band -while they were still in the process of playing...
...unenviable privilege. But Mrs. Burbidge continued observing well into her sixth month of pregnancy; her only child, Sarah, 15, perhaps prenatally influenced, insists that she will never follow her mother's example. Margaret Burbidge has forsworn traditional domesticity. Except on rare occasions, the Burbidges dine out. Asks jovial Geoffrey Burbidge: "What's wrong with restaurant food...
...recent visitors have invariably found him immensely civilized, reasonably cosmopolitan and statesmanlike. Henry Kissinger, an unabashed admirer, says that "he is not a petty man. He has large views." To France's peerless man of all letters, Andre Malraux, the Chinese Premier is "neither truculent nor jovial: faultlessly urbane and as reticent...