Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inexperienced staff may not know what they are doing either. Notes Anthony Moffett, a Democratic Congressman from Connecticut: "People are saying to him, 'Tell me where I'm going and I'm ready to go.' But they aren't getting an answer." A revealing account of this uncertainty came from a Carter campaign veteran who is now a White House aide: "I really think that for all his political career, Jimmy was so busy becoming something, so busy achieving political office that he never really had time to sit down and decide...
...survivors interviewed in Helsinki were of some help, particularly in reporting that the Soviet account of the incident, which suggested the casualties and damage to the plane were caused by the lake landing, was not the whole truth. In fact, when the jetliner refused to respond to the Russian interceptors' signals, the Soviets had opened fire on the Korean craft. It was their bullets that killed the two passengers and damaged the plane, forcing it to land on the frozen lake near Kem, a landing one passenger described as perfect. After the landing, Captain Kim told his passengers that...
...really took place in a small Texas town some years ago, and it is engagingly rich in regional nostalgia and spiced with delicate bawdry. Not surprisingly, the co-author of the libretto is a storyteller of no mean skill, Larry L. King, an accomplished journalist who wrote a compact account of the actual facts underlying Whorehouse after they occurred. To tell it as it is in the show, a rural community, Gilbert, has long tolerated, secretly relished, and certainly patronized a venerable bordello run in a rectitudinous fashion that would be the envy of most private-school headmasters today. Governors...
...African blacks. The Corporation magnanimously agrees that apartheid is reprehensible, yet refuses to do what little it can to hasten its end. No one believes that divestiture, in any form, by the University would signal the economic death-knell of South Africa, but the Corporation fails to take into account the moral value any divestiture would have. In the end, the Corporation has proven once again that Harvard is more of a business than a place of education and values...
Gregory had another passion: politics. By his own account, he and his wife gave a total of $108,522.08 to political campaigns between 1974 and 1977. Among recipients: Governors George Wallace of Alabama and Reubin Askew of Florida. Gregory claimed that he and Vonna Jo gave some $40,000 since 1974 to Jimmy Carter's campaign fund and to the Democratic Party, and he also credited himself with raising some $250,000 elsewhere for the Democrats. Because of this feat he was made a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee's finance council...