Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delay caused SALT critics in Washington to fear that the Soviets might be trying to shade some nuances in their favor. Senate G.O.P. Leader Howard Baker Jr. warned darkly about the pressures of "deadline diplomacy." But an Administration official insisted that there was no cause for concern. Even so, the two leaders may yet have to settle some of the fine print during their face-to-face sessions this weekend...
...Monday morning the two leaders will discuss bilateral matters. Carter will push Brezhnev for firm assurances that the Kremlin will continue its more liberal policy on emigration, particularly for Jews-the price the U.S. Congress has set for lifting restrictions on Soviet trade. The President will also urge Brezhnev to free Dissident Leader Anatoli Shcharansky from prison...
Khrushchev is believed to have decided that Kennedy could be intimidated, and the Soviet leader sent missiles to Cuba. Far from being frightened, Kennedy was jolted into reality and got tougher, as he demonstrated in the 1962 showdown...
...became sexual and finally caused their divorce in 1936. By then she was 42, and all she really wanted was a chance to enjoy her winnings in comfort. Pickfair was perhaps the most comfortable great house in America, elegant and welcoming. In 1937 she married Buddy Rogers, the band leader and actor who had given her that first screen kiss. Until her final withdrawal into solitude, she occupied herself with various causes, including work for the aged. At the end, she was devoted to her Bible and her booze, allegedly sipping away a bottle of it each...
...Herbert S. Newman Associates at Yale's Center for American Arts, and the creation of a striking office complex within a four-story 1896 bank building in Princeton, N.J. Interestingly, Michael Graves, 44, who was responsible for the design, achieved prominence in the early 1970s as a leader of a highly theoretical group of architects specializing in abstract form. Graves has since redesigned some two dozen old buildings, and is currently converting a 1906 railway station in Millburn, N.J., into an office complex...