Word: old
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill Garcia? Richard and Pat Nixon, moving eastward into a Manhattan condominium, did it with two poolside margarita, taco, guacamole and fruit kebab parties at La Casa Pacifica. Former Attorney General Mitchell, marking his 66th birthday, was guest of honor at the first, a reunion to which 250 old hands of the Nixon Administration were invited. "John Mitchell has friends and he stands beside them," said the ex-President of the man who went to jail for obstructing justice in the Watergate investigations. The second party featured one of Nixon's favorite teams along with 300 other guests...
That left as front runners Runcie and England's second-ranking churchman, Archbishop of York Stuart Blanch, 61. But Blanch was considered a little too old and too courtly for the job. Runcie seemed more likely to bring energy and excitement to Anglicanism...
...much for the dust jacket. Inside the fair was another story. There Western publishers dreamed of reaching millions of new readers with millions of old rubles. Said Robert Baensch, vice president of Harper & Row: "We're planting the seeds, looking for a big future market." But as fast as the seeds were planted, they were uprooted. Robert Bernstein, chairman of Random House and an outspoken advocate of human rights, was not even allowed in the country. And at the fair itself, inspectors ransacked exhibitions and carted off more than 50 books, most of them American. Some of the proscribed...
Citing poor health, Taraki resigned in favor of Prime Minister Hafizulla Amin. The 50-year-old Amin has emerged recently as the pro-Soviet regime's most prominent figure...
Peter Yates' PG Breaking Away returns to the old formula. Against a tide of cinematic drivel, Yates and a few other directors are making a stand with small-scale movies which make up in honesty for what they lack in monumentality and pyrotechnics. Cheered on by his audiences and lauded by critics, Yates, with a movie about bicycles, has out-distanced power-driven, Dolbyized, super-slick monsters like Rocky II and smug, summer-hyped star vehicles like Meatballs...