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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...optimism as he talked with TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn after the Rabat summit last week. The P.L.O. leader was not wearing his customary checkered kaffiyeh and dark glasses, but was dressed in an olive-drab military uniform and had a small pistol strapped to his belt. Over mint-flavored tea and pastries in the white guest villa that Morocco's King Hassan had provided him, Arafat smiled and chuckled often, his quick, jerky gestures reflecting boundless energy. Tired? Not at all, he said. "I only get tired when I don't work." Among the points he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Arafat Talks of War and Strategy | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...with his violence Nin sees it in herself. She resists the "physical and mental promiscuity" in Henry Miller while they are together in Paris, and later traces the same gleeful audacity in hereself back to childhood, when she solicited strangers on the street by inviting them in for tea...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: A Way to Rejoin the Ocean | 10/25/1974 | See Source »

...always a little shy, he has one eye slightly askew and wears his long hair tied back in a tail, which gives him the look of a congenial, landlocked buccaneer. His sense of humor is spiked with sardonic throwaway lines (he calls dilettante English Rockers who love American blues "tea bags"). Cooder likes to stay close to home, but when he must go to L.A., he dresses his otherwise modest person in smashing, vibrant shirts made especially for him by a neighbor friend named Sumiko and drives into town in a '55 Nash Rambler ("the only unhip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Wizard of Slide | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...themselves. Betty Ford seemed to glow with good health on Friday morning when she and her husband joined Lady Bird Johnson at a ground-breaking ceremony for the L.B.J. Memorial Grove on the banks of the Potomac River. Later in the day, Mrs. Ford had Lady Bird to tea in the yellow Oval Room of the living quarters at the White House. No one noticed when the President's wife quietly slipped out of the White House shortly after 5 p.m. to keep her appointment at the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIRST FAMILY: Betty Ford: Facing Cancer | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...least the G********* Department course had the sembalance of academic rigor. The Tea-and-Crumpet type of seminars don't. In these classes you receive lady fingers with your syllabus and scones with your exam questions. It's nice when an instructor believes that the members of a seminar should get to know one another outside of class, but during discussion it becomes difficult to take as serious criticisms offered by someone you've been talking out the past few weeks. When someone else accuses you of having racist attitudes or neanderthal political views, you feel like going over...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Naive Student | 10/5/1974 | See Source »

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