Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things, a workers' democracy, abrogation of the Anglo-Irish free-trade treaty, and a neutralist foreign policy. Responding to the challenge, the ruling Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny) Party, under Premier John (Jack) Lynch, campaigned against Labor's "alien ideology," and against O'Brien himself. Taking account of the fact that O'Brien has been divorced, they pinned on him the ironic label of "the new pope of Irish morality...
...movement is expanding both pictorially and geographically. Check printers are turning out two-color "personality extension" checks that are supposed to give the account holder a choice of self-images: an American eagle for the patriot, cupids for the romantic, geometric patterns for orderly types. Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., Detroit's Bank of the Commonwealth and about 300 other banks now offer two-color checks decorated with hearts, psychedelic designs and even the peace symbol...
...agencies are starting up to serve the need, though most of them bill less than $1,000,000 annually. Last week, for example, Zebra Associates opened shop in Manhattan with an integrated staff. The agency is a partnership between Raymond League, a former account executive at J. Walter Thompson, and Joan Murray, a correspondent for Manhattan's WCBS-TV. Their biggest account is the national campaign for All-Pro Chicken, the franchising chain headed by Brady Keys, retired professional football star. Zebra's admen are not the least self-conscious about using heavy Negro dialect in their...
...Virtually nothing is going into the savings account," says Wayne Costley. "I'm still in my 30s, but I don't have the freedom to enjoy these years. There's no boat, there are no trips. I work hard, but it amounts to Nancy's going on vacation with the kids once in four years...
...felicity of language and a feeling for the political and social unease in the U.S. as the election of 1968 approached. (Halberstam, now 35 and an editor of Harper's magazine, won a Pulitzer prize for his 1963 New York Times coverage of Viet Nam.) He begins his account in the late summer of 1967 with a meeting between Bobby and Allard Lowenstem, a leader of the gathering anti-Johnson forces. He follows the Senator through his doomed campaign, ending with the terrible moment in Los Angeles...