Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longest countdowns in diplomatic memory-and one of the most frustrating. For months the end of the U.S.-Soviet arms talks has seemed so imminent that officials and reporters have mounted a kind of SALT vigil. But a settlement keeps turning out to be just beyond reach. No sooner have negotiators resolved what earlier had been described as the last few issues than new points of dispute...
...poise to overcome his jockey's uneven performances. "He just glides," reports Franklin. "I'm sitting on a Rolls-Royce." The horse will have only two serious rivals in the Derby: Flying Paster, the three-year-old California champion, and General Assembly, the first Secretariat colt to reach Derby status. Flying Paster lost but one race this spring, to a colt carrying 8 Ibs. less weight. General Assembly ran twice against Spectacular Bid last year and twice was soundly beaten. Eddie Arcaro admires the colt's delicate skill as well as his strength: "He's very...
...individuals blithely go along wasting fuel. Not only has demand for gasoline, which accounts for one-third of the nation's fuel bill, continued to grow fast, but U.S. dependence on foreign oil has increased by nearly 50% since the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, and this year will reach some $50 billion...
Eliot describes the ever deepening frustration Ochs endured as his songs and his career failed to reach the minds of his contemporaries. It all began, though, in 1962 in the Greenwich village folk clubs, which then featured singers like Peter Yarrow, Dave Van Ronk, and Bob Dylan. It was a time when "anyone with a pocketful of tunes, a guitar, and the guts to get up on stage was singing folk music." Ochs started out with songs like "One More Parade and "The Power and the Glory...
...years. And so the most chilling story in the book, the story of "John Train," a vicious, violent persona that Ochs crawled into in 1975, is tragic, but it is only a personal tragedy. The larger tragedy came when Ochs sought but could never find the notes that could reach the people. His last synthesis before he descended into alcoholism and depression was to try to recreate Elvis Presley as Che Guevara...