Word: piping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superstars were obviously Ford and Brezhnev. Before the signing took place, there were nearly three days of speeches by the heads of the 35 delegations; both Ford and Brezhnev sat through the entire parade of rhetoric. As the first session opened, Ford settled down in his seat, lit his pipe and adjusted the earphones that brought simultaneous translation. Brezhnev sipped a glass of tea at his work desk, fiddling from time to time with the new dentures that are said to give him considerable discomfort. Just before he was due to speak, the Soviet leader mopped his face with...
...after the vote, Prime Minister Wilson granted TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel the first comprehensive, on-the-record press interview he has given since his February 1974 election. Meerschaum pipe in hand, Wilson sat in a pink velvet easy chair in his comfortable and attractive third-floor office at No. 10 Downing Street. Through the curtained bay window, the breeze carried in the strains of a military band playing in nearby St James Park. The Prime Minister had the relaxed self-confidence of a man who was realizing the rare joy of action decisively taken as he talked optimistically...
...crush Reagan by rounding up delegates early and dealing roughly with Reagan supporters. Told by the California group that some Reagan aides had been "insulted" by their lack of patronage influence with the Ford Administration, the President sounded unworried about such unrest among Reagan aides. Calmly puffing on his pipe, he observed that he had been a conservative Republican long before Reagan became one. Reagan was still playing second-banana roles in grade-B movies when Ford began pushing conservative principles, a Ford intimate explained unkindly...
Best of all is the Stage Manager of Fred Gwynne, who, under Kahn's guidance, maintains just the right pacing, and captures the proper folksiness. He is not afraid of pauses, whether to light his pipe or to contemplate what he wants to say next. In a couple of places he changes Wilder's words, updating a reference to "the treaty of Versailles and the Lindbergh flight" to "atom bombs and Apollo flights...
...residence of South Korean President Park Chung Hee, sits amidst manicured gardens in the hills overlooking Seoul. There last week TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, Tokyo Bureau Chief William Stewart and Correspondent S. Chang met with Park for 1½ hours. Relaxed and self-assured, Park alternately smoked a pipe and cigarettes as he propounded his views. Excerpts...