Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imposing delegation of Arab leaders, ranging from ardent socialists like Algeria's Houari Boumedienne to semifeudal sheiks from neighboring gulf coast states. The King would probably have been more moved, however, by the national outpouring of grief from Saudis of every level, with whom he had never lost touch...
...Press section. Among them were TIME'S newly appointed Tokyo bureau chief William Stewart, who spent 1966-70 "in country" with the State Department, and London correspondent William McWhirter, who reported the American buildup in Viet Nam for TIME from 1965 to 1967. Both got in touch with political and military sources to try to find out what the massive retreat would mean to President Thieu and his long-suffering country. Dispatches from all three correspondents formed the basis of the analysis of Viet Nam's crisis written by Richard Bernstein with the assistance of Reporter-Researcher Betty...
...billionaire had tried for years to arrange a connection with the CIA. Explained Maheu: "He wanted it so that Uncle Sam could never take after him. If he got in a jam with the Internal Revenue Service or the Securities and Exchange Commission, they couldn't afford to touch him because of what he was doing with the CIA." But it was the agency, in fact, that made the initial approach to Hughes about Project Jennifer...
...abrupt and unhappy end. After 17 days of almost continuous commuting between Israel and Egypt, the Secretary suspended his efforts to get a second-stage disengagement and returned to Washington to report to President Ford and Congress. The official statement said that Kissinger would "remain in close touch with the Co-chairman of the Geneva Conference," referring to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...gifted charlatan, or Moses redivivus? It is only certain that he appeared and disappeared as if on celestial cue, leaving his work to more stable founders and builders. Unhappily, as this biography reluctantly demonstrates, the man was all too human-a naif, a hack and a monomaniac. Probably a touch of madness ran in his blood: two of his three children were suicides; so was his only grandchild. But he did have the inexplicable gift of prophecy. In the operetta that was old Europe, he looked through the gilt backdrop and saw the flames of the Holocaust. In life...