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...post of U.S. Ambassador to Moscow has been vacant for three months now, and both the Kremlin and the State Department are getting impatient for President Nixon to choose someone soon. Russian officials hope His Excellency will be a political appointee with little expertise in Soviet affairs, preferably a businessman who will devote himself to promoting trade−avoiding all ideology or messy matters like Jewish emigration and intellectual dissenters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Wanted: A Superambassador | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...American expatriate, is just a ravaged romantic, and at the end he is a dead one. Jeanne, a babied product of the Parisian middle-class, is throughout nothing more than a volatile brat with a voluptuous body. As their sexual partnership, founded on a chance encounter in a vacant apartment, begins to turn to love, even the emotional tension becomes attenuated -- the only question, will the girl accept Paul's cynical attitudes towards sex and the world in general as well as his basically sentimental ones towards love and fidelity...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Right Between the Legs | 4/14/1973 | See Source »

...chose this vacant area because we didn't want to remove any businesses or people from their homes," Grays said. "The City will realize a good tax income from this site and will have no services to supply to the area...

Author: By Robert Mcdonald, | Title: Citizen Clubs Ask Council to Oppose Building of Station | 3/28/1973 | See Source »

...decision reached Monday night, the Department voted to terminate its unusual policy of holding Kissinger's chair in reserve, awaiting his possible return. The chair had been vacant since January 1969, when Kissinger left Harvard for the White House...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Harvard Kisses Henry Good-bye | 2/10/1973 | See Source »

...position became vacant last month when John T. Dunlop resigned to become director of the Cost of Living Council in the Nixon Administration...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Bok to Appoint An Acting Dean This Morning | 2/6/1973 | See Source »

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