Word: rumanians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Have we not, in the face of universal dilettantism, the consolation of possessing, with regard to pain, a professional competence?" asks the Rumanian philosopher E.M. Cioran, no mean student of suffering himself. The answer is an emphatic yes, as every publisher's list of autobiographies proves...
...born in Wattenscheid, Germany, on Nov. 11, 1920, second son of a one-armed Scottish engineer. Brought up mainly on the Continent, his only stint in England (at Eton, of course) was brief and unhappy. At age 18, James joined a British espionage unit, exposing first a sweaty Rumanian card cheat at the baccarat tables of Monte Carlo. After that, the jobs got more difficult. In 1940, for example, he killed a Japanese code breaker in New York by shooting him through a hole made earlier hi a thick window by his part ner's bullet...
...presided at a White House dinner, the first in two months, for visiting Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu. The next evening Nixon was in a rare jovial mood at a reception at the Rumanian embassy. He patted shoulders and threw mock punches. Urging Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns to visit Rumania, Nixon declared: "You visit there one time and look at the girls. Rumanian girls are pretty." Then he was spotted by Secretary Rose Mary Woods, who exclaimed: "Doesn't he look well...
...idea on the ground that there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries. One solution considered by the Israelis: to let an American or European airline handle the task. It might also be possible to bring the emigrants out by sea, perhaps from Odessa or from a Rumanian port...
...doughty Rumanian in effect topped the Russian leader's pitch...