Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Please put things in perspective. Ham Jordan's "gas-guzzling" Cordoba [July 23] gets the same E.P.A. mileage as some Alfa Romeo Spyder and Datsun 280Z models, and better mileage than some Porsche 928 and Mercedes 450 SL models...
...usually testy Senate Banking Committee Chairman William Proxmire: "The President has shown outstanding judgment. His appointment will be praised by Congress, by participants in domestic financial markets and by the international monetary community." Added the Brookings Institution's Robert Solomon: "The President couldn't have found a better man." The stock market shot up, bond prices improved, and, despite Carter's lack of new programs to support the dollar, it temporarily recovered slightly on overseas markets, mainly on the basis of Volcker's reputation as a conservative defender of the dollar...
...native Minnesotan, Donovan was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Minnesota and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He was lured away from his plans to teach history by the better starting pay of a $25-a-week reporting job on the Washington Post. (Said the Post in an editorial last week: "Mr. Donovan... is a man of such enormous professional talent and personal distinction that whatever he does for the Carter presidency is bound to be a plus.") Donovan covered the State Department, Capitol Hill and the White House before serving as an intelligence officer...
TIME asked a variety of historians, writers, businessmen and others in public life, "What living American leaders have been most effective in changing things for the better?" Reflecting the continuing problem of leadership in the White House, no one named Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter. The great diversity of the people chosen mirrors the fragmentation of American society, one of the problems for leaders. The nominees ranged from relatively predictable to almost shocking...
BILLY GRAHAM, evangelist: I believe that the living American leaders who continue, year after year, to do the most to change things for the better are the countless mothers and fathers who have committed themselves to love and to train the next generation...