Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brezhnev sincerely sought, if not peace in the Western sense, then surcease from the danger and risks and struggles of a lifetime. When I met him he had gone through the Stalin purges of the '30s (indeed, his first big jump up the ladder took place then), the Second World War, a new wave of purges, the power struggle following the death of Stalin and the intrigue that led to the overthrow of Khrushchev and catapulted Brezhnev to the top. He seemed at once exuberant and spent, eager to prevail but at minimum risk. He had had enough excitement...
...tender quit the Caribbean on Jan. 3, 1971-only to be replaced by a second tender that arrived in Cuba on Feb. 14 with another Soviet naval task force, including a nuclear-powered attack sub. I handed Dobrynin a note on Feb. 22 saying that the presence of a tender in Cienfuegos for 125 of the last 166 days was inconsistent with the understanding. The tender and sub left. In May, a tender and a nuclear-powered cruise-missile sub made a visit. Every conceivable combination was being tried -except the most important one, the presence of a tender...
During the second Inauguration [Jan. 20, 1973], Nixon moved as if he were himself a spectator, not the principal. There was about him a quality of remoteness, as if he could never quite bring himself to leave the inhospitable and hostile world that he inhabited, that he may have hated but at least had come to terms with. Perhaps it was simple shyness or fatalism; perhaps it was consciousness of a looming catastrophe...
...second issue appeared on newsstands, Goldsmith took a bullish stance...
...horse West Texas town; following surgery for ulcers; in Dallas. Born in Albuquerque, big, burly Jones spent the last half of his life in Texas, working as a director, ticket taker and lead actor at Paul Baker's Dallas Theater Center, where his wife Mary Sue is second in command. Almost 40 when he finished his three plays set in mythical Bradleyville, Jones was discovered by Tennessee Williams' agent, Audrey Wood, who arranged for a Washington production of Trilogy. The plays' success at the Kennedy Center led to a brief run on Broadway and national celebrity...