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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wielded a deadly putter throughout the afternoon, snaking home transcontinental putts and ramming in ten-footers with reckless abandon. "Alex just kind of awed the field," said Bartlett. He was the only man to break...
...nattering nabobs of negativism," and even joined in the "Nixon death watch" during the hot, intense final days of the Nixon regime in the summer of 1974. After all, I considered it a source of pride and self-esteem to fight the man who fought the Vietnamese with such abandon...
...hopes for education were overblown, he asks, does this "require us to abandon the effort to carry out the educational mandate of a democratic society, or does it require a democratic society to undertake economic and social as well as educational reforms to facilitate carrying out that mandate?" In short: one social program has failed, so let's turn to another...
Both Israel and the U.S. now face the problem of how to deal with a new ingredient in the Middle East morass: a Lebanon that is not the Lebanon of old. It seemed certain last week that the Moslem leftists were on the verge of forcing the country to abandon the old sectarian political system, either by accepting reform or by facing the muzzles of 25,000 AK-47s. As King Hussein observed in Washington, it is no longer "a question of changing a President in Lebanon, but of changing a regime and its shape...
...time being, only workers under direct control of the mayor's office -112,000 of the city's 250,000 employees-stand to be affected. If New York does abandon Social Security in 1978, these people will take home considerably more money-up to $895.05 a year if today's tax rate still applies. Of course, the city would have to join a private plan or set up one of its own to cover employees who are not vested and supplement the benefits of those...