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...helicopter lifted his party off the White House grounds to begin the 11,510-mile journey to Peking. As he and Pat walked past a score of congressional and Cabinet leaders in an unusual red-carpet sendoff, Nixon repeatedly poked officials jovially in the ribs, bent close to whisper remarks that newsmen could not overhear, laughed at the banter. Yet he was restrained as he described his mission's goal to some 8,000 spectators, including 1,500 schoolchildren bused into Washington for the occasion. "We must recognize that the government of the People's Republic of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Now, in Living Color from China | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

Lambretta's Italian competitor, the Vespa, has also been hurt by the auto. But Vespas will continue to be produced at home, leaving the Italian people at least a whisper of a past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Victim of Affluence | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...have been dealing with an impostor [for Hughes]. It might have been a flimflam man." Then he veered back: the man he had met for all those hours could only have been Hughes. Finally, exhausted and suffering from a case of laryngitis that reduced his normal baritone to a whisper, Irving ended the interview with a shrug: "God, I just don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECCENTRICS: Clifford & Edith & Howard & Helga | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Hampered by a simulated French accent, Bloom lacks gravity in certain scenes, but her ravishing beauty is authority enough. With a voice that can raise a welt with a whisper, Atkins is monarch of all she surveys. The rest of the excellent cast helps make the Broadhurst Theater a plot of royal ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Star-Crossed Haters | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...their relationship has been strained by the something that, in Beverly's words, "is basically troubled between us genetically," they do not show it. They still have their private jokes and rituals, such as when Peter kisses Beverly's cheek before she goes onstage and they both whisper their favorite good-luck word: "Merde." Beverly has learned to live with the occasional insinuations that Peter's wealth has floated her career. Once a music publication reported that Peter had bought Westminster Records so that Beverly could record anything she wanted. "I wrote a letter to the editor," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beverly Sills: The Fastest Voice Alive | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

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