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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observer, invoking a Norman Mailer book: "It should have been called Advertisements for Myself" Department officials feel Moynihan overstated his success in getting African nations to respond to his pressure. The indiscreet naming of specific nations and specific leaders* may have actually hampered the policy Moynihan advocates. U.N. watchers note, for example, that with Moynihan slated to assume the presidency of the Security Council this week, on its regular monthly rotation, a number of Third World nations have gone to some pains to avoid bringing up their business with the council during his tenure. Said a high State Department official...
...first concert tour of the West Coast since 1948, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz almost began on a bad note. During a pre-concert shopping excursion through Seattle, Horowitz, 71, suddenly found himself wedged in a supermarket turnstile. "I pushed it one way, and it would not move," he recalled. "I pushed it the other way. It would not move. I never saw anything like it. I said, 'Goodbye, I'm gone forever. Finito.' " Supermarket employees finally managed to free the imprisoned virtuoso after a 15-minute struggle with the balky machinery, however, and Vladimir survived to play before...
...Doonesbury is sometimes so Delphic that adherents of just about any point of view can find aid and comfort in it. For foes of school busing, there was a series in which a white boy in a newly integrated school is beaten up by blacks. Busing proponents, however, might note that the victim probably provoked the assault by mistakenly calling one of his black assailants a honky. ("I got mixed up. I'm new at this," he explained.) Champions of drug-law reform might be cheered that Trudeau mentions hallucinogens casually and frequently in the strip. But hard-liners...
...instead of polarities; the thrust of the flame instead of the oscillation of the wave." This was partly meant to separate his work from the tradition of the School of Paris, which was all balance and harmonious composition. But in such remarks, as in the work, one catches the note of true terribilità that lies beneath the grumpy face Still turns to the public...
Most Wall Streeters are convinced that the immense volume is a strongly bullish sign. They note that even when stock prices dipped briefly last week, they did not go down nearly as much as might have been predicted after so large and so rapid a climb. "We are surprised that the market has run so fast and performed so consistently," says Gary Helms, chief investment strategist at L.F. Rothschild...