Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supply contributions to friendly candidates and lobby in Washington for measures helpful to their members. In the 1972 campaign, the nation's largest milk coop, Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AMPI), spent more to back candidates of both parties ($906,245) than any other organization except for the political arm of the 14 million member AFL-CIO. Precisely how much the milk producers gave to the Nixon re-election cause is unclear, but it is at least $527,500, or more than five times what corporate giants like Gulf Oil and Phillips Petroleum ponied...
...Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was eloquently simple. There was a flourish of trumpets from the Queen's Dragoon Guards, Mark's regiment. Then, while the guests sang Glorious Things of Thee Art Spoken, the princess strolled down the aisle on her father's arm. Behind her followed her only attendants: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 9, daughter of Princess Margaret, and Anne's brother Prince Edward, also 9. She promised "to love, cherish and to obey." The groom slipped onto her finger a wedding band that had been made from a nugget of Welsh gold...
...pigeons and passing cars that is so dyed-ih-the-Dacron American. There might even be a centerfold featuring the latest model that has come to the big city for the exciting night life-but ultimately, of course, would like to settle down as a policeman's side arm...
...with Rosovsky officially in power, the papers have been shuffling in University Hall. By delegating authority right, left and center, Rosovsky is attempting to unite the Faculty not with a diplomatic strong-arm (a la Dunlop) but with a strong-arm of diplomacy. Whereas Dunlop worked from his University Hall roost to exert his power on administrators and professors, his successor is distributing his power among the Administration and the Faculty, in an effort to bring them together. Although this style of authority would seem likely to decrease his power, Rosovsky's influence has in fact grown...
Real World. Businessmen have for some time been appalled by the bad management of the Nixon Administration, and the revelations of arm twisting applied to raise campaign funds from business. Wall Street, however, is fearful of the effect a lengthy impeachment proceeding would have on the stock market, which already reflects investor jitters. "I think in people's zealousness to get at Nixon, they have forgotten the real world," says Walter B. Wriston, chairman of the First National City Corp. "In the real world, there has to be someone to take Nixon's place. Right...