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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they loosen up and pose for pictures. Meanwhile, the thump of Vietnamese artillery could be heard in the distance." One bright spot in the week's tragic tableau was the harried efforts of international relief organizations in Thailand. "Their valiant work impressed me greatly," says Clark. "In two days, they miraculously transformed an open field into a camp with hospitals and kitchens." But what they can achieve seems small compared with the dimensions of the disaster. Sums up Clark, who has spent a total of twelve years in six foreign bureaus: "Never have I seen people in such despair...
...attendance at this Donovan dinner, the twelfth since 1962, is unusually large. The crowd of more than 400 includes not only OSS veterans and friends and family members but eight Senators, FBI Director William Webster and two wartime spymasters who went on to head the CIA, Richard Helms and William Colby. The old espionage hands come partly out of nostalgia for a simpler age of spying, before cold wars and dirty tricks scandals and congressional oversight committees. There is also a perceptible closing of the ranks behind the nation's now-beset intelligence establishment...
...family to go into politics. (His grandmother succeeded her husband as sheriff; his stepmother followed his father into Congress.) After graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Law, he became a spellbinding courtroom attorney. Following an unsuccessful attempt in 1964, Baker was elected to the Senate two years later. He demonstrated his independence by opposing his own father-in-law, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, on Dirksen's effort to block the U.S. Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision. Baker was twice re-elected with large pluralities...
Yesterday, the frustration came to a head. The Crimson played a solid game that would make any rebuilding team pround. Freshman goalie Kate Williams turned back 11 shots, but missed three--one by Sue Paylor and two by Carol Dainneault--and that was the ball game...
During the night, A, sleeping with B, dreams of C. C stands at the furthest extremity or (if the image is considered two-dimensionally) apogee of a curved driveway, perhaps a dream-refraction of the driveway of the house that had once been their shared home. . .The sleep of B is not disturbed; she rests in the certainty that A loves her. Indeed, he has left C for her to prove...