Word: won
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resisted Brzezinski's combative line toward the Soviets and opposed his successful campaign to speed up normalization with China. Whenever Vance chose to challenge Brzezinski by going directly to the President, as he did over the adviser's repeated alarms about Cubans in Africa, Vance always won. But such challenges were rare. "Cy's not a good infighter," conceded one of his admirers. "He's abdicated whole subject areas to Zbig." It was that very willingness to compromise, to negotiate interminably, that eventually dampened Carter's high opinion of Vance...
...charge, though there is ample evidence of her government's misdeeds. She has conceded that there were excesses during her Emergency, but she has stubbornly refused to apologize for her stringent measures in a time of crisis, an act of political and personal boldness that seems to have won her increasing sympathy. A recent opinion poll shows that 48% of the urban Indian public now favor her as Prime Minister; the runner-up was Morarji Desai with 19%. Thus she will do better than her rivals and improve on her 1977 performance in the election scheduled for mid-December...
Today, at 77, Ansel Adams is the most popular "fine" photographer in America. His images of landscape, and particularly of Yosemite National Park in California, have become almost indistinguishable from their subjects: to many people, Yosemite is the apparition on Adams' viewfinder. "Won't it be wonderful when a million people can see what we are seeing today!" exclaimed John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club, as he gazed on Yosemite seven decades ago. Last year 2.7 million tourists went to Yosemite. One may fairly assume that most of their innumerable frames of 35-mm and Polaroid film were...
David S. Broder, the Washington Post's veteran political writer, won't be drawn into it until after Labor Day, convinced that "the process has got out of hand in length and cost." He thinks the press itself may have "aided and abetted" this overemphasis, because "it's easier to cover politics than to write about government." Theodore H. White, who first trooped around New Hampshire with Estes Kefauver back in 1956, vows to make 1980 his last book-length inquiry into President making. "Why, New Hampshire's only 26,000 votes!" Teddy White says...
...often beat their capital colleagues to important but not so obvious stories. Staff Correspondent Robert J. Samuelson's examination last year of the growing impact of the elderly on the federal budget, for instance, touched off a wave of similar articles in the general press and this year won a prestigious National Magazine Award...