Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iranian crisis was in its seventh week and OPEC was propelling oil prices to historic heights. But in that cosmopolitan capital on the Potomac, the best and the brightest were preoccupied with a more delicate matter: the open or shut case of Zbigniew Brzezinski's fly. As it turned out, President Carter's National Security Adviser had kept his zipper up, and the Washington Post was caught with its trousers down...
Gary P. Kutcher Potomac...
...another former director, Gustav Mahler. Such authenticity in itself is no guarantee of quality, but to the performances last week in Washington it added a living spark of history. Washington, as history-minded a city as any in the U.S., responded ardently. Shivering against the predawn chill off the Potomac, buffs began lining up outside the Kennedy Center at 4 a.m. for the 50 standing-room tickets that would go on sale six hours later. Sellout crowds packed the center's 2,300-seat opera house and 2,700-seat concert hall. Sprinkled among them, on one night...
...seeming indifference. As she must know only too well, waste disposal is one of those problems that nobody in Washington wants responsibility for. A variety of inter agency reports and meetings have addressed the problems, but most of them are gathering dust on agency shelves. Up and down the Potomac, in fact, they're trying to sidestep the problem. Reactors and laboratories are generating hazardous materials at unprecedented rates--but nobody wants to play garbage-collector...
...typical day this fall, he started work at 7:30 a.m., going over a briefing book with three staffers at his home, a rambling, 16-room gray-shingled house in McLean, Va., that overlooks the Potomac River and is surrounded by five wooded acres. The subject was immigration, and as Kennedy flipped through the pages, he read questions he had scrawled in blue ink the night before. He kept asking for obscure facts, almost as if he were probing to make certain that the aides knew what they were talking about. Says...