Word: tranquility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sign bills better once they are clear of Pennsylvania Avenue. But important matters cannot be resolved well by an itinerant President. Information is limited, the passion of arguments is lost when they are put down on paper, and the mood and feel of a crisis disappears in the tranquil havens of sun and water...
...world's problems seemed far away as Henry Kissinger sat at a small table outside his San Clemente office. The sun was bright, the air cool and clear. Flowers ringed the small patio, and beyond the immaculate lawn lay the blue Pacific. From this tranquil outpost, the world looked peaceful. Watergate seemed manageable, the Congress friendly, and the press tame. But Kissinger's strength is that he knows all this is deceptive. The real world is not so idyllic, and Kissinger wants to get back into the real world as fast...
Except for young Bayard Sartoris, like his ancestors, who is abrupt, almost violent. After returning from the First World War, his tranquil surroundings suffocate him. To escape the vacuum, he buys a car and speeds through the old country roads. The speeding car ultimately kills his grandfather; so does Bayard's impatience with life end abruptly in an airplane crash. Even the Sartoris' old "nigger," Simon, dies ending that era which never accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox...
...million people live in coastal cities. Together with such other way stations as Cookamidgera, Ivanhoe, Broken Hill, Bookaloo, Tarcoola, Koolyanobbing and Doodlakine, Kalgoorlie forms a new standard-gauge rail link across the continent. This single 2,461-mile track now connects swinging Sydney on the Pacific with tranquil Perth on the Indian Ocean. While the U.S. is cutting back on trains, Australia just added a third weekly transcontinental express in each direction. TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan made the trip and reports...
...high green fences and thick belts of trees, the compound-with its acres of lush lawns, gleaming silver birches, dark pines and carefully tended beds of flowers-looks like a weekend hideaway for members of the Soviet elite. But there are no rustic dachas (summer homes). Instead, the tranquil enclave is filled with space-age hardware: laboratories, giant centrifuges and flight simulators...