Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Several Senators closely questioned Vance because of what they termed their "lingering suspicions" that the State Department's initial backing of the U.N. resolution reflected a growing influence of a pro-Arab group of policymakers in the Administration. Vance denied this was the case. And once again Vance took full blame for the flip-flop on the resolution, saying that his department had failed to follow Carter's wishes...
Last week a group of concerned Americans clustered around a television set in Chicago for an updating on their own state primary. Their focus was not on a local luminary but on Walter Cronkite, who had come to the provinces and set up his majestic broadcast booth. His noble gray head appeared at the bottom of the screen, a gigantic red, white and blue map of the U.S. spread out behind him. Not since George C. Scott opened the movie Patton had such a dramatic entrance been filmed. There were quiet gasps among the appreciative Chicagoans...
DIED. Ernö Gerö, 81, pro-Moscow Hungarian who as leader of his country's Communist Party sought to stop rising anti-Soviet feeling by ordering police to fire into a group of demonstrators in Budapest on Oct. 23, 1956, the episode that inflamed the heroic but brutally quelled Hungarian uprising; of a heart attack; in Budapest...
Fewer than 300 of the 56,000 commercial airline pilots in the U.S. are women. In that select group, Claudia Jones, 35 (left), and Cathy Jones, 25, have still another distinction: they are stepmother and daughter. Florida-raised Claudia began as an entertainer (she plays 19 instruments and sings), then learned to fly so she could barnstorm with her Vegas act. Claudia started putting in time as a flight instructor, and during one stint Cathy turned up as a student. That led to Claudia's marrying Cathy's father, Hal Jones. Now Claudia co-pilots Boeing 727s...
...film-book writers, the next few years will determine whether they are working in Ghastlyville or Oz. No matter what transpires, one group will never suffer: the producers. If fresh material ever runs out, they need only heed the advice offered by Will Rogers half a century ago: "If the movies want to advance, all they have to do is not get new stories but do the old ones over-as they were written...