Word: wooing
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...want to stay on as Secretary of State. The SALT talks are now taking place in Geneva, and the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev is still scheduled to visit the U.S. this summer for a summit meeting with President Ford. In the meantime, with an unfriendly Congress to woo, the Secretary of State realizes that his most delicate diplomacy may have to be performed right in his own backyard...
...buying spree when it obtained Mirages from France; these were the first supersonic warplanes in Latin America, except for Cuba's Soviet-supplied MIGs. For the next five years, the European arms salesmen shuttling across the Atlantic to woo South American customers were virtually unchallenged by U.S. competition. In 1973, after Europe had already sold more than $2 billion in war materiel to Latin America, the Nixon Administration gave in to the pleas of U.S. defense industrialists and ended the embargo...
...Notre Dame Assistant Football Coach Brian Boulac. For six months the recruiter had quietly but persistently homed in on Dennis Grindinger, 17, an outstanding tight end at Jesuit College Preparatory School in Dallas. The competition had been heavy. Oklahoma had dispatched a recruiter to Dallas eleven times to woo Dennis and his family. Texas Head Coach Darrell Royal had phoned twice that very day. Now it was Boulac's turn, and he played his ace: Notre Dame Head Coach Dan Devine came with him to the Grindingers' living room and made a persuasive, impassioned pitch...
Dean Rosovsky said yesterday he will "move into high gear" as soon as he finds out the council's nominees for Afro posts, and begin to woo them...
...wealth. Though he is generally good-natured, the press of fans and reporters sometimes nettles him ("My private time is mine. I'm not a Lee Trevino type who needs to tell jokes"). Miller now commands up to $10,000 for a personal appearance or exhibition, and advertisers woo him night and day. Sears, Roebuck has introduced a line of clothes called "the Johnny Miller Collection," and he has appeared in television commercials for Beautyrest mattresses. He has turned down legions more. "I can be oversold too," he says. No doubt, but the income from the endorsement offers...