Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...will make his first official trip abroad in five years. According to reports, he will visit any number of countries, including Pakistan, South Yemen, Tanzania, France, Albania and Rumania. Chou's travels will climax a new departure in Chinese diplomacy. After several years' abstention from normal diplomatic relations with other countries, China is returning to international life. Over the past three weeks, Peking has sent ambassadors to Poland, Hungary and Yugoslavia, bringing to 25 the number of Chinese envoys abroad. Once again the lights are flicking on in Chinese embassies all over the world...
...recalls fondly. But mastery of card flipping and having his own charge account at Irving's were not enough. Gould was terribly conscious of "a degree of vulnerability, of not wanting to make a fool of myself. I didn't feel abnormal, but I certainly didn't feel normal...
...Elliott, there couldn't be. His father gave him a normal-enough bar mitzvah ("They're still talking about it. The Biltmore in Brooklyn! Forty-some dollars...
...that women are just as likely to be pushers or bombers. Dances haven't required that one partner lead the other for years, anyway. Chivalry will transfer itself to those who need it, or deserve respect: old people, admired people, anyone with an armload of packages. Women with normal work identities will be less likely to attach their whole sense of self to youth and appearance; thus there will be fewer nervous breakdowns when the first wrinkles appear. Lighting cigarettes and other treasured niceties will become gestures of mutual affection. "I like to be helped on with my coat...
...pinch is already affecting commerce and industry across wide segments of the East and Midwest. Last week the Tennessee Valley Authority disclosed that its normal 60-day stockpile of coal is down to a ten-to twelve-day supply overall, and to four days' worth at some of its thermal power plants. When the town of Braintree, Mass., sought bids recently for oil to run its generating plant for another year, none were submitted. Though there is plenty of natural gas available in the Southwest, the fuel has become so scarce on the East Coast that the Elizabethtown...