Word: watching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ensemble for two trumpets and two trombones first performed on a tower the morning of a German music festival. To duplicate the original effect the four instrumentalists performed the short piece of three movements in the gallery above the Sanders stage, with the orchestra and audience straining to watch. Blending might have been difficult, because of the extraordinary distance between the trumpets and trombones, but the four soloists maintained good ensemble, although they had some problems with intonation and rhythm...
...parents were up in the solarium and when they heard our voices, they came hurrying down and asked us to have dinner with them." Joined by Nixon Friend Bebe Rebozo, the young people dined with the Nixons, discussed the day's events and then put matters aside to watch the latest Paul Newman movie (The Sting). Most tantalizing of all the weekend's events is the picture Julie draws of the President on Saturday evening summoning the family to explain why Cox had been fired, an explanation Julie adroitly declined to pass along. "When he writes his memoirs...
...Moscow, addressing a Soviet-sponsored World Congress of Peace Forces, Brezhnev announced that Russia was also sending its own force of a hundred or so civilian "representatives" to keep watch on the ceasefire, and he invited the U.S. to follow suit. Later the same day President Nixon at his press conference indicated that the U.S. would do so, but only under U.N. auspices...
...also likes Cambridge--"an exciting place"--where he has become firmly rooted year-round with his wife, son, and two daughters. But Mendelsohn has had to be always wary of academic inertia. "The University, at times, likes to fool itself," he says wryly. "It seemed so peculiar to watch the University trying to be aloof from the war and hearing ROTC marching around down by the Divinity School...
...year will doubtless bear no resemblance to the festive Thanksgiving meal that followed closely on Richard Nixon's landslide re-election. Republican leaders who visited the president at Camp David. Md. or in New York during the four-day weekend, came to congratulate the "world's greatest peacemaker," to watch the annual Thanksgiving football rivalries on television and possibly to discuss plans for a cabinet post in the administration's second term...