Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confidence that he could prevail. Scarcely a year ago, in fact, the President had been busy planning his first big overseas trip; one of its high points was an elegant New Year's Eve celebration with the Shah in Tehran. Last week, when asked whether he thought the Shah could survive, Jimmy Carter sounded noticeably guarded, probably more so than he intended. "I don't know," he replied. "I hope so." The U.S. would not get "directly involved," the President emphasized, adding carefully, "We personally prefer that the Shah maintain a major role in the government, but that...
Still the questions linger. Why does there appear to have been so little thought given even to contingency planning? One well-informed U.S. Government source says that as far as he knows there has been no paper that went through normal Government clearance procedures addressing the question of what to do if the Shah should fall. How can this...
...last name was Meir, but few Israelis ever thought of her as anything but Golda. To many people, her face was an appropriate symbol of Israel itself: strong, disarmingly homely, above all tough. It was a face that inspired love but also demanded respect-and the operative word was "demanded." Golda was of that generation of pioneers who built the Jewish state; she served as its Prime Minister through five years and one war. When she died last week at the age of 80, from the complications of lymphoma, an illness she had kept secret for twelve years, she still...
...world's largest Gothic cathedral is not in France. It sits on Morningside Heights in Manhattan and after 86 years is still unfinished. Construction stopped on the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at the outset of World War II and was never resumed; church leaders thought it improper to spend money on bricks and mortar in the face of poverty and social crisis in nearby Harlem. But last week Bishop Paul Moore Jr., 59, announced a change of policy: building will start again in June. "Confrontation, picketing and burning down are not the order...
...thinks it looks more like "the Loch Ness monster." This artistic debate took place at the unveiling of the 27,000-lb. bronze in front of Dallas' new city hall, designed by Pei. "Until this arrived," Pei said, "I felt something was missing." A few spectators, however, thought something was still amiss. "Is this a junkyard?" asked one. Moore was undaunted. "People shouldn't immediately expect to cotton onto something someone else has been thinking about much, much longer," he says. "I mean, they don't understand Einstein...