Word: followings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...then makes a leap of faith, as it were, one that readers will be hard pressed to follow...
Some political experts predicted that the Soviets would take a carrot-and-stick approach to the allies, combining promises of new mutual benefits that would follow from a continuation of détente with warnings of what might befall the allies if they pursue Washington's "hostile" course. In a number of Western capitals, in fact, Soviet diplomats were privately promoting possible peace talks between Afghanistan and its immediate neighbors, Pakistan and Iran, and the possible creation of a "security zone" for the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf...
...mutiny of 100 or so inmates in a Newark, N.J., jail. In fact, the event seemed trivial only because it came so soon after the epic mayhem that took 33 lives in February at the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe. That was a hard act to follow. But such is the condition of prisons, overcrowded and festering everywhere, that penal officials admit that other spectacular explosions could come at any time-and will, sooner or later. The national disgrace, in short, has grown into a combustible scandal...
...Even the trivia somehow does not seem trivial. It is touching to hear Frank Capra recall Mack Sennett's sad mansion full of unread books and overdressed servants. Director Henry Hathaway, who remained active past True Grit (1969), wittily brings back the days when his job was to follow DeMille around with a chair on location. A writer remembers the shock of seeing her credits on a silent version of Macbeth: "By William Shakespeare. Titles by Anita Loos...
Seven Sioux reservation councils recently passed resolutions condemning the book. Pickets follow the author around the country with signs saying HILL HAS A TONTO COMPLEX and HILL SPEAK WITH FORKED TONGUE. When Sioux protesters showed up to confront Hill at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln last week, the author angrily canceled her appearance. Said Hill: "We've been shafted by people who don't know what they're talking about...