Word: backers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reflection of the increasingly hostile public climate facing the industry is a new series of television ads sponsored by a feisty anti-oil consumer group called the Energy Action Committee, whose chief financial backer is Actor Paul Newman. One sequence portrays a U.S. oil executive mugging an American consumer, while disguised in a flowing Arab burnoose. The spot's message: "We'd better break up the oil monopoly before it breaks...
...Union if there is a nuclear war? These questions are especially important because, according to present strategy, close to 60% of the U.S. nuclear megatonnage will be carried by manned bombers, the rest by missiles based on land and aboard submarines. Concedes Democratic Senator Sam Nunn, a B-l backer: "Considerable logic can be mustered for either side of the argument...
Certainly the union does not lack enthusiasm. After last Thursday's balloting, as Powers was flashing a cautious victory smile and hustling past a dejected Sullivan and her supporters, a union backer called after him, "We'll be back next year Ed--same time, same channel." Powers, Steiner, and the others known that-but they cannot be sure next year will bring the same result...
...that Tom would remain with us." Indeed, Seaver left the dugout the night before he was traded to confer by telephone with Mrs. De Roulet. An agreement was apparently worked out. But next day, Seaver heard about a story by New York News Sports Columnist Dick Young, a staunch backer of Grant (Young's son-in-law is a Mets employee). The piece contained a belittling reference to Seaver and his wife Nancy. Seaver promptly called the Mets front office and announced: "Everything is off. I want out." That evening, to the unbounded joy of Cincinnati fans...
...essentially around domestic issues, mostly on the specific point of whether the entrenched Labor leadership that Rabin represents still deserves, after 30 years in power, to continue leading the country. Rabin was hand-picked by Golda Meir three years ago to succeed her as Premier, and one savage Peres backer gibed last week: "I cannot understand the mechanism that every three months, when Rabin gets into some kind of trouble, the old lady is called back from the home for the aged to save his political career." Peres supporters also blamed Rabin for inflation, running at an extreme rate...