Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assisting Pines in his labors was White House Correspondent Chris Ogden, who accompanied the President on his six-day diplomatic tour. "By the end of the trip, Carter seemed absolutely drained," reports Ogden, who knows the feeling himself. Carter boarded Air Force One and headed home for a well-earned rest...
...already on a second full day without sleep, returned to Washington a half day after the President and headed for the office, where he spent the rest of the week working on the story that appears in this issue. When either Ogden or Carter is rested enough for another trip to the Middle East, he can count on Burt Pines' plotting his movements on the multicolored...
...taken a tremendous risk and had won. At times during his six-day mission to Cairo and Jerusalem in an attempt to forge an Egyptian-Israeli peace, failure seemed all but certain. Discouraged aides talked openly of the trip becoming "a debacle." But at the last minute Carter achieved a victory of presidential diplomacy that has brought Egypt and Israel to the threshold of peace after 30 years of enmity and four brutal wars. By his daring and persistent personal intervention, Carter fundamentally altered the geopolitical equation in the volatile Middle East. He also strengthened his own standing both...
...Boston Symphony's triumphal eight-day, four-concert trip to Shanghai and Peking did not come about as a dream. Ozawa, 43, who speaks some Chinese, and the symphony's general manager, Thomas W. Morris, 35, had been invited by Peking to visit next December, but when normalization came, they asked to push the tour date forward. The Chinese agreed. They were especially interested in Ozawa's offer to provide some coaching in the form of master classes...
CLEVELAND--"Cleveland?" my friends say as if I had just suggested a canoe trip in the Cambridge sewer system. "What in the world would you want to waste a week there for? All they have there are steel plants and lousy teams...