Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Betamax a replay of her first triumph unwinds in glorious technicolor. The camera zooms in on pink fingernails fluttering near pale skin as her face crumples with joy and disbelief. The weepy, departing queen struggles to fix the crown on her successor's head. As a recorded chorus serenades, "She's a miracle, she could be Miss America. . . the one that we ado-o-o-re," the winner grips her scepter and hurtles toward the runway at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium...
...diplomatic labors after Sunday-morning church services. Begin will not participate in talks from sundown Friday through sundown Saturday. It is uncertain how Sadat will observe his Sabbath, but White House officials hope he does not want to go into Washington to pray at the Islamic Center Mosque near the Egyptian embassy. Admitted an Administration official: "We want everybody to stay up there in the hills. We don't want any circus...
...wall hangs a portrait of Theodor Herzl, founding father of Zionism; near by hangs Ze'ev Jabotinsky, a leading proponent of Eretz Israel (the biblical land of Israel) and mentor of Menachem Begin. Tieless and in shirtsleeves, the Israeli Premier seemed relaxed and reflective as he spoke last week with TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer. Excerpts...
Indeed, his rafting adventure down the Salmon was perhaps the farthest withdrawal from the presidency, both physically and emotionally, that has been managed by any recent Chief Executive. It is true that Secret Service agents with their guns and radios were near by in other rafts. But their security paraphernalia were covered with outdoor garb, and even television cameras and reporters were banished from the immediate scene. For a few hours at a time then, the President heard only the rush of clear water, the muffled voices of family and friends, and the quiet language of trees and animals...
...carried a VOTE PIG IN '68 banner in the good old days: "I felt like a grandmother among them. Times have changed. The war is over." Activist Dave Dellinger made a short speech. "Who's Dave Dellinger?" someone asked. After his speech, Dellinger retired to a near North Side loft for a wine-and-cheese party for tenth anniversary survivors...