Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, the 23rd anniversary of his brother John's death, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) paid a visit to Soldier's Field Park just in time to catch his alma mater's football victory. Wearing a navy blue overcoat and boots muddied from tailgating in the surrounding fields, Kennedy took a stadium seat after visiting the Arlington National Cemetery graves of his brothers, President John F. Kennedy '40 and Robert F. Kennedy...
...Sacrifice after a junk-food diet of Hollywood movies is like ducking out of a carnival to visit a medieval crypt. You are pulled out of time and into a sacred stillness. The images, handsomely sculpted, address themes of life and death and life after death. Gods and gargoyles hover in the cramped air, dwarfing all human anxieties. Man is a mite here, pitiable in his ignorance of what matters, or else vainglorious in his quest to find the answers to riddles beyond his solving...
With no decision yet made on the Cornish-Windsor bridge rehabilitation, Graton busies himself meanwhile with other projects. His route between home in Ashland, N.H., and various jobs sometimes takes him near Cornish, and he stops to see how the old bridge is holding up. On one such recent visit he studied it from a parking area that overlooks the span and is frequently used by tourists who stop to take photographs...
...Gorbachev has not taken a step forward. He has merely lifted his foot." The Japanese, too, are cautious. Soviet efforts to warm relations began last January, when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze traveled to Tokyo. Since then, Moscow has wooed Tokyo with diplomatic concessions and hints of a Gorbachev visit, perhaps as early as January. In Vladivostok, Gorbachev pointedly called for "profound cooperation" between Moscow and Tokyo. Japan has the technology Moscow needs to awaken the sluggish Soviet economy and develop gas and oil deposits in the Soviet Far East...
...Hokkaido, where the Soviets have 10,000 troops and 40 advanced MiG-23s. Sovereignty over the islands, occupied by the Soviets at the end of the war, remains a highly divisive issue. Last August there was a modest breakthrough when the Kremlin allowed a group of Japanese to visit their relatives' graves on two of the islands without first obtaining visas. But the Japanese are not overly impressed. "So far," says a Japanese Foreign Ministry official, "it's been an atmospheric change...