Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Years before alligator shirts covered every second American torso, long before artifacts of Ivy League style were mass-merchandised, before anyone dreamed of writing an "official handbook," Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel was the premier public place for preppies. Within its vaulting rococo spaces, numberless Princeton boys leered at an endless parade of Vassar girls, while Dartmouth seniors, a little tight, chatted up Smithies. Aging doughboys staggered out of regimental reunions singing. The bubbliness was swell and incessant. Scott Fitzgerald and J.D. Salinger, writing for and about two generations of preppies, each dragged characters through the gilded Palm Court, under...
...trip was a ritual of homage. Following in the footsteps of every other East bloc leader, Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski made the traditional trek to Leonid Brezhnev's Crimean vacation retreat last week for what was described by the official news agency TASS as a "short working visit." They had much to work...
Kriangsak enters Parliament with a powerful political base. He appointed 150 of the Senate's 225 members while Premier, and he hopes to attract enough support in the lower house to make his National Democrat Party the leader of the opposition. If that happens, Prem's regime will confront a formidable foe. But Kriangsak coyly denies any plan to topple the government. Says he: "I'm nobody's enemy...
...Brittany fishing village to the tiniest French Alpine hamlet, no local matter is too minor to escape the attention of the Paris government. The Atlantic coastal town of Saint-Palais-sur-Mer wants to extend a street? It needs the signatures of the Minister of the Interior and the Premier before the asphalt can be poured. A poultry association in the small Vendee city of Challans wants to produce Christmas turkeys? It must satisfy the Ministry for Agriculture that its birds meet national standards. And so it has long been in France, the Western nation with the most centralized government...
...week's end the government's problems produced a Cabinet shuffle that unseated three ministers. Among them was Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, who was reportedly sacked for failing to produce an economic recovery program. Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski, an army general, turned to two fellow officers to fill vacant posts: General Czeslaw Kiszczak as Interior Minister, and General Tadeusz Hupalowski as Minister of Administration...