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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street-tough union organizer for the so-called "Federation of Interstate Truckers," hardly throws a single punch during the entire proceedings (all right, so he does bludgeon someone to death with an axe handle at the beginning of the movie). Instead, Stallone's Johnny Kovak and Best Friend Abe Belkin (David Huffman), canned from their first factory jobs for union agitation, are tapped as organizers--on a commission basis--for their F.I.S.T. local, and gradually build the union's membership through the use of friendly spiels and free passes to Rocky. Stallone predicates his rise to success within F.I.S.T. (F.I.S.T...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The Rocky Road | 5/11/1978 | See Source »

...union-busting goons, and then vows to fight back. During the ensuring fight, Ricky (as already mentioned) bludgeons to death a man who tries to shoot him; when the bloated Senator Andrew Madison (Rod Steiger) opens his McClellanesque hearings with evidence culled from the recently disenchanted (and just murdered) Abe, one major chunk of the committee's case rests on the report of the bludgeoning. The rest of the questioning deals with the relationship which Kovak's Teamster-clones have enjoyed with the Mafia during the union's meteoric climb in membership, a relationship which entangles the former Lord...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The Rocky Road | 5/11/1978 | See Source »

...chiefs at the Metropolitan Club and the Greenbrier and the Business Roundtable. Yes, says Wriston, business should be strong both in 1978 and 1979, which is as far as anybody can foresee. But he is bedeviled by many questions about modern America, including who killed Jack Armstrong and whether Abe Lincoln could be elected today and what's doing with the Laffer Curve. Let Wriston explain three of the problems that he senses worry the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Who Killed Jack Armstrong? | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Success is under suspicion, heroes are under attack. "I claim that Jack Armstrong, the all-American boy, died a long time ago," Wriston continues. "And today, Abe Lincoln could never be nominated. Abe Lincoln, the fellow who did not show up at his own wedding. Abe Lincoln, who, after Ann Rutledge died, was certifiably crazy and was found wandering in the woods, mumbling to himself. Can you imagine what a great story that would have made on Channel 7? The sad fact is that we are scrutinizing our leaders and our institutions in the kind of close detail that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Who Killed Jack Armstrong? | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Carl Stokes, former mayor of Cleveland and now a newscaster for WNBC-TV, welcoming ex-New York Mayor Abe Beame to the staff as an urban affairs consultant: "I hope the station hasn't become the employer of last resort for ex-mayors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1978 | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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