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...Though Mrs. Kissinger will abhor this notion, I submit that upon her marriage to Henry Kissinger [April 8], the American public found their replacement for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis...
...sneer that their city has the best police force that money can buy. Others note that it has often been difficult to tell the cops from the crooks without a lineup card. But James M. Rochford, who has spent half of his 52 years on the force, thunders: "I abhor dishonesty among policemen." If he is eager to root out corruption, Rochford has landed the right job; last week he was named Chicago's superintendent of police. He moves in just when the city is in the grip of a police scandal of truly startling proportions, even...
...possible conditions, the one that businessmen most abhor is uncertainty. Yet as the U.S. economy lumbers out of one of its most profitable, troublesome and portentous years, uncertainty is the only word for the outlook. In trying to gauge prospects for 1974, most economists admit to playing a kind of blindman's buff. The biggest imponderable is the extent of the damage likely to result from the energy crisis, which is sure to bring something that economists have no experience charting: a slowdown caused not by lack of demand but by shortage of supply...
...TIME'S first editorial is to be applauded by all who cherish the Bill of Rights and abhor the despot whose reign of tyranny and corruption must be ended before America can once more be called the land of the free. Thank...
Describing his personal feelings toward prostitution, O'Leary said, "As a Catholic, a Holy Cross graduate, and a father of five girls. I personally abhor prostitution and it is against all my personal values and beliefs...