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...discussions hit snags, he replied: "I've kept my casualness but for the time being I've canceled my cheerfulness." Later he won several important concessions, such as the unilateral declaration of German unity and a private understanding from Gromyko that the renuniciation-of-force treaty would pave the way toward progress in the Big Four talks on Berlin. In an unusually cordial gesture, Gromyko invited Scheel for the weekend to his dacha outside Moscow. Shucking their coats and settling down in wicker chairs, the two men reviewed their negotiations while sipping tea, cognac and kvass, and ended...
...really us against them." "it'd be Custer's Last Stand. They'd be Custer, we'd be the Indians. We'd pave the streets with black skin...
John A. Volpe must enjoy confounding his critics. A millionaire highway builder and former Republican Governor of Massachusetts, he was expected to pave over America when he became Richard Nixon's Secretary of Transportation. Instead, Volpe has stopped highway projects that would have thrust through park land and destroyed low-income housing and historic buildings. Says he: "We've got to provide a national transportation system with the least possible harm to the environment...
...University is giving up the battle to maintain the Forbes Plaza grass and shrubs, and this week will begin to pave the area. "With the abusive use, grass and shrubs just can't survive there." commented University Planning Officer Harold L. Goyette...
...Isaiah 7: 14, which in the King James Version ("a virgin shall conceive") had clearly prefigured the Virgin birth of Christ. Now, the meaning is more ambiguous: "A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and will call him Immanuel." But the R.S.V. helped pave the way for such a change two decades ago by translating the Hebrew almah as "young woman" (elsewhere in the Bible it is used to describe young women who are clearly not virgins). Even the Jerusalem Bible, a Roman Catholic project, uses "maiden" in the Isaiah verse, a compromise which allows...