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This concerns the trade agreement on which Nixon and Brezhnev shook hands in Moscow last May. That agreement promised a vast expansion of the two nations' meager level of trade ($200 million in 1971) through tariff reductions and long-term credits. What the Russians regard as the key element of the deal-treatment of Russian imports on a "most-favored-nation" basis* -requires congressional approval...
Each time Chou moved to a new table, he shook everyone's hand. Then a waiter would give him a warm, moist rag to wipe his hands. His right hand was injured during the Long March and is sensitive...
...play went off splendidly--Distaffina more a low neck and short sleeves, and on her introducing a fancy dance, the applause almost shook old Hollis down. Another member of the Club lived in the rooms across the entry, and there we had the pudding after the play, the actors kept on their dresses and poor Distaffina was nearly bothered to death by her admirers...
...crowd of townspeople, including several sporting American Legion hats, gathered for his public penance. A few shook his hand. Some shook their heads. "It was like the old days when they slapped you in the stocks," Wardrip recalled. After an hour, he could take no more and pleaded with the judge, "I don't care what happens. I can't face the people outside." Judge Rees relented, but insisted that he finish the three hours holding the flag in a closed courtroom...
Though Ailey toyed with Hollywood long enough to get a dancing part in 20th Century-Fox's Carmen Jones (1955), he soon was off to New York to study modern dance with Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey, ballet with Karel Shook. Since the rise of his own company, he has continued to freelance extensively as a choreographer. His iconoclastic Feast of Ashes, created for the Joffrey Ballet in 1962, signaled a new fusion of classic ballet and modern dance styles, or the advent of what can only be called the Ailey style. "What I like," he says...