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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perkins found in Fitzgerald a man whose writing captured the spirit of The Jazz Age--even though Perkins was a little skeptical of all those flappers--in Hemingway someone who lived the exciting kind of life that Perkins so admired, and in Wolfe a man who had come to a strong, profound understanding of America and its people...
Three cheers for President Carter, whose expert statesmanship has made peace in the Middle East attainable. Now he had better start solving some domestic problems. Inflation and the declining dollar affect every American citizen. The President will have to handle these issues with the same expertise he demonstrated at the summit talks...
...talk as if the whole thing had been his idea in the first place. People laughed and scoffed, but Brown seems to have survived the flip-flop with votes to spare. The latest survey shows him 25 points ahead of his lackluster Republican opponent, State Attorney General Evelle Younger, whose campaign style is unkindly compared to a mashed-potato sandwich...
...defected to Seoul from North Korea, he was celebrated as an "antiCommunist gladiator" and given the equivalent of $20,000. Seoul also provided him with free housing and his choice of a college scholarship or free farm land. He received several job offers. An association of Seoul businessmen whose ancestors came from Kwon's home province is trying to find him a bride. Observes Kwon, understandably: "My decision to defect has not been a mistake...
...personality, arap Moi could not be more different from his flamboyant, autocratic predecessor. A teetotaling, shy and straitlaced man whose most salient characteristic is an occasional flash of quick temper, he has been described as having "about as much charisma as a dry maize cob." The son of poor farmers hi the Great Rift Valley, arap Moi had by 1946 become headmaster of a government school in Kabarnet. He was one of the first Africans in Kenya to enter politics, and one of the first to be appointed to the preindependence, British-dominated national Legislative Council...