Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon relishes Pope John Paul II's trip to Poland. "Stalin asked how many divisions the Pope had," Nixon chortles. "The answer is one hell of a lot of divisions." Nixon catalogues the Soviet flaws: their economy is a "basket case," Eastern Europe is not so firm, the cost of Cuba is growing. The Soviets have that one damnable advantage of singleminded, purposeful, directed leadership...
...whole venture angered a group of 8,000 Illinois taxpayers known as the Coalition for Political Honesty. They have asked the courts for an injunction forbidding the state to pay any of the estimated $85,000 expenses for the trip...
...this year. Members of Parliament had been dismayed by reports that he had given a $14,000 cocktail party in Caracas and run up a $2,000 bill for three nights spent in New York City's Pierre hotel. Last year, he took a woman friend on a trip to Peking as an official interpreter at E.C. expense and over Budget Commissioner Christopher Tugendhat's objections. Though the woman was multilingual, she happened to speak not a word of Chinese...
Adams' photographic career began with the first trip he took to Yosemite, with his father in June 1916. He brought along a Kodak Brownie box camera. The trip was "a tremendous event," he recalls. From that moment, the Sierra?"that great earth gesture"?dominated Adams' life, changed his vocation, gave him his subjects. He was married there, to fellow Californian Virginia Best, a marriage that has lasted 51 years. One of his two children was born there, and not a year has passed since 1916 without his making at least one return visit. Often the visits have been elaborate...
...Adams' album from his 1916 trip, with its tiny sodium-browned prints of the Merced River, Half Dome and the scarps of the great valley, one can see the latent images of his work, struggling to become photographs. But as yet they were just vacation snapshots. "They couldn't have meant anything at all to anyone else," he says. "But as I kept doing it over several years, it began to mean more. I was seeing more. Then I got better cameras. Then I began to separate things, to see them more clearly." The first picture he took that...