Word: transatlanticism
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During one of several calls to London last week about the Cyprus crisis, Henry Kissinger reached British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan in Prime Minister Harold Wilson's office at No. 10 Downing Street. After a few moments of conversation, Kissinger told Callaghan that "I am here in the Oval...
The transatlantic flight, however, had a cast worthy of Nathanael West. Decked out in sheepskin, boas and all the desperately glamorous trappings of the underground, 156 passengers took off to the sound of popping champagne corks. "Being on the first transatlantic hip flight is something to remember," grinned Max Scherr...
Covering a string of one-night stands is nothing new for Fischer. "It's like a presidential election campaign transplanted to an exotic clime," he says, recalling his days aboard George McGovern's rattling bus-train-airplane caravan two years ago. "But in this case, the fatigue is...
Since the end of World War II, U.S. and European leaders alike have advocated a united Western Europe in the conviction that there would never be any transatlantic rupture on major policy issues. The theory was fine so long as the dominant issue was the Soviet threat to peace. But...
When the race began, it shaped up as a battle between two big, custom-built racing machines, the 74-ft. ketch Pen Duick VI from France and the 72-ft. ketch Great Britain II. Both are captained by veteran sailors. Pen Duick Skipper Eric Tabarly won a singlehanded transatlantic race...