Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought Jimmy Carter was just not a big enough man for the job of President. Oh, farmers never had such good prices. The oil companies were making plenty, said Ted. Look at everybody around the table-doing well. Why the complaining? That's what Carter was talking about, somebody noted with sympathy...
When the President gave his big speech he sounded like a Baptist minister, declared Cliff. He's the greatest President we've had since Nixon, offered Lou. Wait a minute, came another voice. What about Ford? He wouldn't like that. There was a little more Sanka and waves more of laughter among old friends...
Inflation was the real enemy, said Gordon, even more than energy. Firing the Cabinet was not that big a deal. Just like pro football, said Monk, a quarterback of long ago. If you don't win, get rid of the team. But what was really bothersome, said bill, was why Carter had not fired those men earlier. Why did somebody else have to tell Carter to fire his Cabinet, and who was that somebody-Hamilton Jordon? For a moment in the Ideal café it seemed as thought Machiavelli had met his equals...
...Carole McClellan, 39, is something of a lone star among big-city mayors. A former civics teacher and school district trustee, she oversees not only the 353,400 people and 120 sq. mi. of her home town of Austin but also a household of four sons, aged eleven to 16. McClellan starts the morning with a dawn breakfast followed by car-pool duty to get the children to school, works all day with Austin's city manager and six-member council, and hurries home to cook dinner for her children (she is a divorcee). She then returns to city hall...
...Essence magazine in 1970 and ended up being hired as managing editor. She took the floundering publication for black women and gave it an audience, ad revenues and an editorial raison d'être. Serious service articles on health and careers replaced slick travel and fashion pieces. One of her big victories: persuading advertisers to use black models in ads for black consumers. "I wanted to show what black women really are: beautiful, courageous and incredibly vital people,' says Gillespie. Born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., and schooled at Lake Forest College, Gillespie, now editor in chief, is in demand...