Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carleton College-educated, Laird, 46, is one of the G.O.P.'s most considerable intellects. Though generally regarded as a conservative, his political views are hard to categorize. As one observer notes: "He's not antiDemocratic, or anti-this or that wing of the Republican Party. He's bigger than that, and he's friendlier than that." From his first day on the Hill, he has concentrated instead on a wide range of national issues...
While her father was assembling his Cabinet, Julie Nixon was hard at work on vital plans of her own-and was keeping them to herself with equal determination. Even when it became clear that she could have a White House wedding if she wished, she stuck firmly to her idea of keeping the ceremony private. With the guest list and other details a closely kept secret, she and Dwight David Eisenhower II, Ike's grandson, will be married Sunday at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church...
...Union lost with the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August. The Russians also want to reach some sort of agreement on limiting the building of anti-missile defenses, if for no other reason than that they recognize that development of the expensive systems will hurt domestic programs in the relatively hard-pressed Soviet Union more than in the affluent U.S. Besides, the Kremlin realizes that, as harmony between the superpowers grows, so does restiveness in Western Europe about U.S. intentions...
...they say I am the enemy of the state. To whom shall I write?" Hardy says that Evtushenko was forced to delete 80 previously published poems from his latest collection of verse and that he was scarcely alone among Soviet writers in his opposition to the invasion. The hard-lining officials of the Writers Union, he reports, were unable to gather enough signatures for a declaration supporting the Soviet action. A compromise letter was finally produced, much milder in tone and with only 34 signers - out of a union membership of 6,600 writers...
...deep trouble; productivity has lagged far behind wage increases, and prices are in a wild upward spiral (120% for furniture, 60% for clothing). Russia, which aims to fasten the nation's industry more securely than ever to its own economic needs, last week proffered a sizable hard-currency loan. As usual, Soviet help would come with plenty of strings...