Word: sojourner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MINNESOTA: Twenty five years ago, Hubert H. Humphrey was elected Mayor of Minneapolis. He was a bright new liberal light, leader of the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party, and a anti-segregation spokesman at the 1948 Democratic convention. Since then Humphrey has been in Washington and Chicago, and neither sojourn did his career any good...
...least the first part of Palme's eight-day visit has begun to take the chill off U.S.-Swedish relations. This week, as if to maintain the equilibrium of his nation's neutrality, Palme will be off again, for an unofficial sojourn in Moscow...
...accomplished nothing else, the brouhaha over Georges Pompidou's American sojourn underscored the delicate dilemma of American Jews vis-à-vis Israel. As individuals or as a community, they certainly had every right to express their feelings about the French President's pro-Arab views. But is it sound tactics or proper behavior for any group of U.S. citizens to insult a visiting head of state? Many sober-minded Jews who are ordinarily strangers to picket lines would answer that their consciences demanded loud protest. In fact, compared with other recent demonstrations, these were small and extremely orderly...
Words or Shoes. In recent years, Dine's paintings have grown more lyrical-often downright erotic. A six-week sojourn in London in 1966 produced a series of blithe drawings that limned private parts of the human anatomy rather more explicitly than is customary. Within a few days of their exhibition, London police confiscated 21 of the works, but a judge later ruled that the works in themselves were not indecent...
...them all?particularly the kids. Jane is no longer content to play an ectomorphic Bardot. As a new mother, she resembles a full page in McCall's rather than a Playboy foldout. And the expatriate stance has vanished. "America is where I belong," she says, after a six-year sojourn in France. "This is where it has to happen." The girl who turned down the leading role in Bonnie and Clyde and Rosemary's Baby is not about to let a plum go by her again. "I'll take on anything," she states, "even a musical." Peter, whose volatility could...