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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was first told that his 1959 itinerary included a stay at Camp David, he was mystified. In Khrushchev Remembers he said, "I couldn't for the life of me find out what this Camp David was. I was afraid this was ... the sort of place where people who were mistrusted could be kept in quarantine. Finally we were informed that Camp David was what we would call a dacha." His amiable talks with Ike on disarmament and the future of Berlin produced what was known as "the spirit of Camp David...
...male Monty Python members comes out on stage tackily dressed in a gold lame evening gown with cat's-eye spectacles. Adopting a feminine-sounding falsetto, he strikes up a paean to the virtues of Britishers: "The English have a quality/I'd like to sing about/It's not the sort of quality/That's bestowed on wog or kraut...
...Corporation also will meet tomorrow and may continue discussions on Brustein's appointment, Bur said. "I sort of assumed we had made an official sort of assumed we had made an official decision [at the November Corporation meeting], but now I really don't know," he added...
...astounding, even distressing, to hear a Democratic president, elected by a coalition which included as major partners blacks and labor unions, talk that way. Though this observer voted for Jimmy Carter over Jerry Brown in the 1976 California Democratic primary, this sort of language compels one who regards oneself as a liberal to think about trying to find a new man. To be sure, Carter's appointments have been sound from the liberal perspective. The names of Joseph Califano at HEW, Michael Pertschuk at FTC, and Andrew Young at the U.N. immediately come to mind. But it is policy...
...Last year you told of the varsity library team grappling with World War I draft evaders. And there was some sort of fall rodeo up in Hanover, New Hampshire. In the dead of winter the startling eat squad made it through salad plate...