Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struggle soon. Top diplomats expect no significant changes in the Middle East in the near future. Progress is stalled not because of the U.S. elections (for once) but because of the turmoil in the Arab world over Lebanon. Before the civil war, there seemed a chance, however slight, that Henry Kissinger could follow up last September's successful Sinai interim agreement between Israel and Egypt with a peace-seeking shuttle between Israel and Syria. But when Lebanon blew up, so did opportunities for further step-by-step diplomacy...
...Senate Watergate committee and is an impressive campaigner. He is also acceptable to all wings of the party. Brock is highly regarded but little known. Ray is personally close to Ford, chairman of the convention platform committee-and also obscure in national terms. Rhodes is a nonabrasive conservative with slight appeal outside the South and West. Missing from the lineup are such more or less liberal favorites as Nelson Rockefeller and Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, who have fared poorly in delegate polls...
Worse yet, Mondale disliked the whole frantic hoopla of running for the presidency and the business of asking people to give him money. Confessed Carter: "I had a slight feeling of resentment that I had worked hard, and he had not." (There was some irony in Carter's choosing the dropout over men like Jackson and Church, who had fought hard in the primaries.) But the Georgian was persuaded by Mondale's explanation that he had simply assessed his campaign realistically and concluded it was going nowhere...
Polanski stars as his own protagonist, Trelkovsky, a slight, shy fellow with a personality like a sweaty palm. Looking around Paris for an apartment, he wanders into a building that must have been built in a state of decay. The concierge (Shelley Winters) shows him a flat whose previous occupant, a young woman, attempted suicide by jumping out of a window into the courtyard below. Trelkovsky gets his only glimpse of the girl during a visit to the hospital, where he finds her on a ward bed, wrapped in gauze like a mummy on welfare. She stares...
...Slight Edge. Then the battle for the uncommitted delegates will become even more bruising. Ford is stronger than Reagan among New York's 16 uncommitted delegates and has a slight edge among Illinois' 13. Reagan's operatives, on the other hand, hope to chip away a few members from the overwhelmingly pro-Ford delegations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Reagan is also confident of winning all of Mississippi's 30 seats since the delegates have adopted the unit rule (whoever wins a majority, however narrow, gets all 30). Ford is pondering a last-minute trip...