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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refurnished with provincial pieces by Mrs. Nixon. The tennis court has been replaced by a 22-by-44-ft. swimming pool. Security has been guaranteed by 1,500 ft. of new fencing and several observation posts constructed in the same tile-roofed style as the villa's main buildings. Spotlights have been installed on the bluff to illuminate the ocean at night. Even the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., whose line runs along the base of the cliff, has cooperated to assure the President's relaxation. It has ordered its engineers to slow down and refrain from...
...tour of 91 appearances in 35 states. Next to Ted Kennedy, he was the most sought-after Democrat on the banquet trail. Apart from collecting $60,000 in honorariums, Muskie also expanded his acquaintanceship with local political, business and labor leaders. But these travels took him out of the main action in Washington. That will now change. Muskie intends to reduce his frenetic national speaking schedule and concentrate more fully on Senate business. Though his speeches will be fewer, he will try to make them deeper. Muskie will also seek to address a national audience and to reinforce the popular...
...published by a group of his colleagues, including Poet Evgeny Evtushenko. Kuznetsov does not make clear whether his fabricated story actually placed those writers in any real danger. But he passes a tortured judgment on himself as well as other Soviet intellectuals. "I now believe," he says, "that the main reason why many highly intelligent and able people do not escape from there is because the Soviet regime has forced them to commit such cowardly acts that no amount of repentance can absolve them. There...
...acute sense of dispossession. Wyatt wears a leather jacket with an American flag stitched on the back; Billy calls him Captain America. The land of the free is not only locked in convulsion now that the rent's come roun'--it's lost. In the classic Western, the main character searches for a long-gone past; in Easy Rider America searches for itself, also long-gone. (Hanson: "This is used to be a hell of good country.") 'And he couldn't find it anywhere...
...main goal is give a group of leading young people an opportunity to gain insight into the American way of life. The seminar also affords them an opportunity to compare the problems and conditions of their own countries with those in the United States and the countries of their colleagues...