Word: odyssey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus occurred, Witcover says, "the great Agnew transformation." He goes on to give a play by play of the Vice President's Pier 6 career, first as a clown and then as an increasingly feared gut fighter who made "an odyssey of divisiveness and personal vilification...
...malaria. He was credited with reducing the death toll in the islands by 100,000 a year. As an emissary of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled to disease-ridden corners of the world, campaigning for modern sanitation and good diet. His 1936 memoirs. An American Doctor's Odyssey, became an international bestseller that vied with Gone With the Wind in popularity...
...Dulles-and yes, at one time, a Nixon-had not been so readily emulated, Chinese and U.S. leaders might have been talking to each other in unpolemic terms long ago. Nor would such U.S. allies as Japan and Taiwan have been quite so outraged by the Nixon odyssey. Neither would there have been such a temptation to spring the surprise so dramatically. Perhaps passion and emotional rhetoric are vanities that powerful nations can no longer afford in a nuclear age. Ideally, the raised glasses in Peking might even have symbolized a mutual reach for a new rationality and maturity among...
Beirut and Amman lie 140 miles apart, and the jet flight between the two cities normally takes only 40 minutes. These days, however, the journey is an extended and somewhat nerve-wracking odyssey. Passengers aboard Alia (Royal Jordanian Airline) Caravelles are subjected to a thorough and intimate antihijack body check; still, four mid-air hijackings have been foiled, while another plane was shot at by anti-Jordanian guerrillas while taking off. After leaving Beirut, Alia Caravelles must fly out over the Mediterranean toward Cyprus and then to Mersa Matruh, swing inland over Egypt to Luxor, turn again to cross...
Scheduled to begin this week, the journey will be the most spectacular ever undertaken from earth: an odyssey of two years and half a billion miles-including a hazardous stretch through the asteroid belt-to fly to within 87,000 miles of the planet Jupiter. If all goes well, the unmanned ship-Pioneer 10-will radio back the first closeup pictures of the giant planet, probe its intense magnetic fields and radiation belts and perhaps peek at one of the twelve Jovian moons. Then with the planet's powerful gravity acting as a slingshot, Pioneer will be hurled beyond...