Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SALINA is almost literally the middle of America, lying in the wheat-rich Kansas prairie equidistant from either coast. The streets are wide and shaded by magnificent Dutch elms. The air is a sweet melange of fresh-cut wheat, mown stubble and clay baking on the river bottoms. A hot, dry wind pours across the plains from the Rockies. Westinghouse tested air pollution in every part of the country before deciding to establish a fluorescent-tube plant in Salina. Instead of traffic reports, the radio offers the latest fishing conditions...
...Sweet Words. To head off just such an explosive possibility, Secretary of State William Rogers two weeks ago approached the principals directly with a new set of U.S. peace proposals. The details reportedly include at least a 90-day ceasefire, Israeli withdrawal at some point from occupied territories, and Arab acceptance of Israel's right to exist within recognized borders. To give his proposals time to germinate among the Arabs, Rogers pressed Israel not to respond to them peremptorily...
...government disliked the proposals quickly became apparent. In front of her Cabinet, Premier Golda Meir harshly criticized Foreign Minister Abba Eban for his overly optimistic evaluation of Washington's proposals. She also wrote a private note to President Nixon. Said an aide to the Premier: "Nixon gives us sweet words, and Rogers stabs us in the back...
...Under the Constitution, a group of radicals bent on preventing the construction of a school on Randall's Island. Without any convictions to mask, Stanley has little difficulty joining up. In fact, the only thing polarized in Stanley's life is his women. Heidi from Queens is sweet, roundish and compliant. Darleen from Harlem is bitter, lithe and defiant. Why does she go out with...
Wayne, 28, and Jerry, 29, have been a sweet-and-sour team ever since they began playing benefits as youngsters in Norfolk, Va. The Newtons were forced to move to Phoenix because of Wayne's chronic asthma; there Wayne was president of his high-school student body. He and Jerry also had a daily variety show on station KOOL-TV, and in his senior year Wayne quit school to accept a five-year contract at the Fremont Hotel in Las Vegas. Thirty-six shows a week was rugged drill, but it enabled the brothers Newton to broaden and buff...