Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko-the next one is expected to take place in New York City in September-the real labor of negotiating an arms-control agreement with the Soviet Union takes place at largely secret meetings in Geneva. There, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent, Strobe Talbott had a rare opportunity to observe the permanent SALT delegations at work. His report: For nearly six years, U.S. and Soviet negotiators have been haggling over what is potentially one of the most important pieces of paper in the world. It is also one of the most complicated. The typescript of the Joint Draft...
...wanted Montini to be his successor. When John died in 1963, the College of Cardinals agreed. They elected him on the fifth ballot. The day after his election, Paul announced on television that the Vatican Council would continue, and he guided it through three more sessions. His interventions were rare but usually decisive. During the fourth session, in 1965, when the critical document on religious liberty seemed threatened by a filibuster of Conservative Prelates, Paul forced a vote. The declaration passed overwhelmingly, 1,997 to 224, affirming to the world that the Catholic Church respected the rights of conscience...
...Lampoon into an established success. Their magazine has prospered largely because it was willing to be unconventional; the staff was willing to trample over almost all boundaries of taste, just as they had at college, in the pursuit of laughs. Outrageous sexism, casual racism, sickness and, at first, the rare ability to keep their perspective combined to make the first few years of National Lampoon truly funny, frequently gross. They knew their market and pandered to it shamelessly, rolling in mounds of dollars pried from the blue-jeaned pockets of all the smartass kids in America who were alienated...
...Himalayas. Schaller (The Mountain Gorilla, The Serengeti Lion) pushed tirelessly through icy passes and over the Tibetan plateau to observe the rutting habits of the bharal, a wild goatlike animal better known as the blue sheep. He also hoped for a glimpse of the snow leopard, a creature so rare that sightings may soon become as problematic as those of the yeti-the Abominable Snowman...
...Lenny Bruce Performance Film--A rare view of the man who brought American comedy into the modern age, and who consumed himself in the process. These days, not too many people subscribe to the Lenny-as-martyr-for-free-speech theory; while he did fall victim to repression all over America, his personal life was tortured enough to put him on auto-destruct without outside help. In this film, made shortly before his death from an overdose in 1966, you can see both of these elements--the piercing and hysterically funny comedy/social analysis that was considered obscene and Bruce...