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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rear Admiral William Benkert, chief of the Coast Guard's Office of Merchant Vessel Safety, indignantly denies the environmentalists' charges. "We haven't been sitting on our dead ass," he protests. But someone is. The U.S. has yet to ratify the liability convention adopted by the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization in 1969. Congress has yet to see the Administration's bill carrying out IMCO'S 1973 convention on ocean pollution. Nor was the U.S. successful in pushing for the adoption of rules requiring newly constructed tankers to have double bottoms. Such a construction feature is now mandatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil Is Pouring on Troubled Waters | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...issues for each candidate do not seem to be solutions to unemployment, energy, etc., but whether he is an elephant or an ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 25, 1976 | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn -solemn as an ass. All the great monuments are built over solemn asses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Politics: No Laughing Matter | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...York Daily News's Gerald Nachman jests that Carter has also given an interview to Penthouse, admitting that the candidate "not only coveted his neighbor's wife but also his house, his servant, his ass and his ox," and that he took the Lord's name in vain four times while in the Navy. "Well, nobody's perfect," Nachman imagines Carter explaining, "but sometimes I come pretty doggone close." Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko has an admission of his own about hust on the lustings: "I, too, have looked at women with lust. While wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Politics: No Laughing Matter | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR has made Dapper the Joey Gallo of the City Council. Though he has no allies, O'Neil refuses to make deals or cooperate with the Mayor. "White can shove that patronage up his ass," he says bluntly. While Kerrigan and Council President Hicks have carefully built up their patronage machines and index card files, Dapper performs favors without collecting IOU's. When many Councilors spent over $40,000 in their re-election campaigns, Dapper limited his budget to $1800 and hired no employees. The media has an unofficial black-out on his many charges...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Rider on a Storm | 10/16/1976 | See Source »

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