Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spencer Davidson's account of the flying chicken spree at Rio Grande, Ohio, is the laughingest story to appear in your pages in all of the 52 years I've been reading TIME...
...public, Adams professed that he had not decided whether to stay. First, he said, he had to reassess the new setup at the White House and the Administration's commitment to "mass transportation and moving Detroit toward a fuel-efficient automobile." When Powell showed Carter a news account of Adams' comments, the President turned livid. He icily instructed Powell to tell reporters that "I haven't had a chance yet to talk to Secretary Adams, but I will in the very near future." Adams showed up at the White House Friday morning but did not wait to be fired. Said...
...wagons in a circle for the 16-month political siege that will end with the 1980 election. According to Califano, Carter specifically said that he "had to get the Cabinet and the Administration ready for the 1980 election." The White House denied it, but Califano stuck to his account...
CLASS REUNION, Rona Jaffe's account of the lives of four Radcliffe grads from the 50s, is a swamp. As Jaffe's characters slog their way from college to 20th reunion, they get progressively muddier. Each arrived at Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright, stereotype--Jewish American princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl...
...Pearson considered Patton a warrior authoritarian and in wartime broke the story. Pearson hectored Forrestal with innuendo and false allegations while he was the nation's first Secretary of Defense; later, just before Forrestal killed himself, other reporters wrote discreetly of his nervous breakdown, but Pearson published an account of how Forrestal, at the sound of a fire alarm, had dashed out into the street crying, " The Russians are attacking! & amp;quot...