Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Margot Fonteyn danced the pas de deux from Swan Lake while Isaac Stern played the violin. Van Cliburn knocked off a Hungarian rhapsody. Shirley Verrett brought down the house with Donizetti. Sol Hurok was celebrating his 60th year as an entrepreneur with a salute from his stars. The audience that packed the Metropolitan Opera House at up to $100 a ticket in tribute to the 85-year-old Russian immigrant was stellar too. In the crowd: Vanderbilts, Astors, Roosevelts, Whitneys, Cristina Ford, Jackie and Aristotle Onassis, and the Prince and Princess Alfonso de Borbon of Spain. A visitor to Hurok...
...leaders themselves were concerned, all the auguries seemed positive. In a pair of auspiciously timed interviews (Brezhnev with Stern, Brandt with Izvestia), both men radiated optimism. "I am coming with great interest and good will," Brezhnev told the German editors last week. "I am of the opinion that the Moscow Treaty has created an adequate foundation for the all-round development of relations...
...turned copy. And the ads are typically placed in mass-circulation dailies and on radio stations. The agency, devoted exclusively to public service ads, gets its total annual revenue of $103,000 in the form of individual donations and grants from such liberal-inclined institutions as the Washington-based Stern Family Fund, the Kaplan Fund in Manhattan, and the San Francisco Foundation...
What will we remember about the Watergate Spring? Banner newspaper headlines daily, introducing new charges and personalities into the scandal. Another maudlin television speech from behind Presidential Seal. John Mitchell, once stern-faced on the ramparts, the hero of Mayday 1971, reduced to a petty criminal, a hang-dog and pathetic figure. The names, a new one every day: Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kliendienst, Krogh, Barker, Sturgis, Alch, McCord, Liddy, Hunt, Chapin, Caulfield. Piecing together the stories, the leaks and the testimony, waiting for that last link, the one piece of firm evidence: "The president ordered me to do this...
Crossfire. Indeed it was. More than any other person in Nixon's official family, Mitchell had symbolized the Administration's dedication to stern law enforcement and its opposition to any coddling of criminals by soft judges. Nixon's most intimate confidant as a law partner and campaign manager, he was the man Nixon had selected to become Attorney General after declaring to cheers in his 1968 speech accepting the Republican Party's presidential nomination: "If we are going to restore order and respect for law in this country, there is one place we are going...