Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been any change at all. His former deputy [Brent Scowcroft] has moved over to the National Security Council, and to me that means Kissinger is still in charge of both jobs. With Nixon gone, I worry about Kissinger. He needed someone like Nixon to keep him on that tough track. He has to have someone around who can keep him from giving away the store...
...annual salary; partially furnished mansion on Embassy Row in Washington, D.C.; presidency of the U.S. Senate; substantial perquisites. Qualifications: 35-year-olds and above; a natural-born citizen; proven endurance at giving and listening to speeches; ability to respond to the whip and obey sometimes demeaning commands. Limitations: Track may be shifted, entry fees forfeited, and a new field named pending outcome of big stakes races in New Hampshire, Florida, Wisconsin and California in early 1976. Postpositions, names of entries and early-line odds...
...resounds with the rhythms of taps and canes and musical hosannas to the man who, according to legend, once owned Broadway. Giving it "the Cohan touch--speed, lights, music," Greg Minahan has set the Grant-in-Aid production of Joel Grey's Broadway hit squarely on the right track...
...match her versatility, resourcefulness and sheer talent. In just a few years, all by herself, she built a great opera company in Boston, a city that did not really want one. Operating in what a colleague describes as "a wilderness of gymnasiums, hockey rinks, old movie houses, an indoor track and a converted flower stall," Caldwell produced operas, including difficult ones that no one else would touch, and staged them ingeniously (she had to, given her cramped quarters). Working day and night as her own conductor, administrative boss, stage director, talent hunter, principal researcher and fund raiser, she has become...
That was evident in Peking recently at the Third National Games, a 17-day internal Chinese Olympics. The huge grab bag of a gala involved more than 10,000 athletes vying in dozens of events including track, rowing, shooting, martial arts and chess. During the opening ceremonies at the 80,000-seat Workers' Stadium, the Chinese practiced their flash-card magic; more than 8,000 people were pressed into service to flash poster-size cards. The result of this collective enterprise: "Ode to the Red Flag," a kaleidoscope of socialist realism scenes, beginning with the message...