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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joan Kennedy for years has had a drinking problem, always kept as private as possible. In search of help and treatment, she has spent extended periods away from her family. Although close friends say her recent disclosures offended him, Kennedy-who did not get to read the stories in advance-says that is not so. "Our family has always kept things private," he says, "but once Joan decided it was best for her to talk openly about the problem, I thought it was very brave." Her honesty, in fact, had benefits for both of them. Now everything...
...writing position papers and devising strategies. The Americans hope that the isolated conditions at Camp David will enhance the chances of success. Vance was pleased with the atmosphere at the Leeds Castle talks. There mediators mixed casually, dined together and strolled quietly around the grounds, while the press was kept at a distance. At Camp David the participants will be able to mix business and pleasure; there is swimming, bowling, tennis and skeet shooting...
...angry at what he took to be Egyptian duplicity in demanding a reduction of the buffer zone. Some of the confusion could perhaps have been cleared up, by a careful rereading of the transcript of the private talks between Sadat and Begin in Jerusalem. Unfortunately, no record was kept of those meetings...
...poems he had not been free to travel anywhere. He was incarcerated in the U.S. Army Disciplinary Training Center in Pisa, charged with treason for making speeches over Rome radio in support of Mussolini's regime. For the first three weeks of his imprisonment, Pound, then 59, was kept in a small outdoor cage with a cement floor, free only to watch the Pisan clouds by day and "O moon my pin-up" at night. Improbably, some of his greatest poetry flowered there and in the tent where he languished during the next five months...
...wall and shipped it to me wrapped like fine china." Patey's idea, actually, was to use the wall to create publicity for a Roaring Twenties restaurant he was representing, but the restaurant owner thought the whole idea was, well, perhaps a little too roaring. "So I just kept it," Patey recalls. He reassembled the wall and showed it at a wax museum, with gun-wielding gangsters shooting each other in front of it to the accompaniment of recorded bangs. The wax museum went bust. The wall made its last appearance at a Vancouver nightclub, and then Patey dismantled...