Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...male-female ratio problem exists at Dartmouth [March 12], that's for sure, and most fraternity boys and sorority girls, myself included, like to go wild on the big Winter Carnival weekend, but you made it sound as though every male on campus is out to "score" and every Dartmouth female is obese, boring and uglier than sin. Not so. Dartmouth College has a lot more to offer than drunk men and homely women...
...even the Pentagon wants to crank up the old draft again. General David C. Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, admits that "there were tremendous inequities in the previous Selective Service." The service chiefs, however, want registration revived and the draft machinery oiled up. Going one big step further, General Bernard W. Rogers, the Army's Chief of Staff, favors calling up about 75,000 to 100,000 young men a year, keeping them on active service for several months, and then assigning them to the IRR for six years...
Republican Party pros scoffed when Big John Connally, 62, announced that he was running for President. "A slick Lyndon Johnson," sneered one, "A wheeler-dealer in a sharkskin suit," gibed another. Now, only two months later, the jeering has stopped. Concedes Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, campaign chairman for Front Runner Ronald Reagan: "Connally is coming on like gangbusters...
Lobbies that support capital-sapping Government regulations are equally potent and vengeful. Big steelmakers, textile manufacturers and agribusiness interests put their political muscle behind tariffs and import quotas. Wealthy shipowners lavish contributions on legislators who support the Jones Act, which requires that U.S. flagships carry all cargo among domestic ports. Small but vocal groups-the membership of the 185 U.S. antinuclear organizations totals roughly 35,000-prevent the shift from imported oil to nuclear power...
...those innocent days the big names in show business were frightened by radio. Paley set out to win them, and before long such famous names as Paul Whiteman and Will Rogers had been tempted before the microphones, where they found even greater recognition...