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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance, the American people had judged Carter to be inept. So inept, indeed, that Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before announcing his candidacy last month, held a 2-to-l lead over Carter as the choice for the Democratic presidential nomination. All that has now changed. Riding a wave of patriotic fervor and a degree of unanimity unseen in this country since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Jimmy Carter has suddenly become, according to the latest polls, the solid choice to be renominated and re-elected to a second term in the White House...
...Charles L. Allen, folksy pulpit patriarch of Houston's First United Methodist Church, thinks that seminarians' lack of interest in preaching was largely due to the emphasis on social impact encouraged by Martin Luther King Jr. The irony is that King, "one of the greatest pulpit men of all time," moved his countrymen as much with words as with deeds. "A lot of younger preachers at the time didn't see that," says Allen...
...make money out of clothes, and impossible out of haute couture. "High sales volume cannot be achieved with clothes, since no one style can ever have really broad appeal. Perfumes, by contrast, are bought everywhere, in all seasons and by all kinds of people, from secretaries to socialites. L'Air du Temps and other fragrances account for 75% of Nina Ricci's revenue. Several fashion bastions, among them Schiaparelli, Chanel and Paco Rabanne, are said to rely on perfume profits to keep their doors open...
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...Rivebelle restaurant. At the meal Mme. Swann called "le lunch," there would be creamed eggs en cocotte-and Dining shows the way to prepare them. In Jean Santeuil, Proust wrote of the lobster set before Mlle. de Réveillon, reason enough to provide the formula for homard à l'Américaine. Albertine pleads for skate with black butter; King delivers it. Marcel wrote affectionately of éclairs, marrons glacés, strawberry juice, orangeade, chocolate cake, oysters, petite marmite, roast goose ("superbly limbed and shining with gravy"), hare a l'Allemande and venison that was "dark...