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...Englanders do not have a sense that their problems cannot be solved, only that the answers have not yet been found. Said Mary Newman, regional director for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare: "People are not scared, just confused." Added Hartford, Conn., Mayor George Athanson: "People want the buck to stop with them. They want to have something to say for a change. All you gotta do is show them how to do it." New Englanders want Carter to supply this missing ingredient-which may be asking quite...
...event, like Aspen itself, brought together the worlds of big-buck entertainment and world-class skiing. The waiflike, French-born defendant had been a lead Folies-Bergère showgirl in Las Vegas. There she met Andy Williams, the Kennedys' favorite crooner, and ended up marrying him and his singing career. After 14 years of marriage and three children, they were divorced in 1975, but by then Longet had moved in with Sabich. The skier, a former world pro champion, was a celebrated bon vivant who owned a $250,000 mountaintop house in Aspen. It was there, while...
...goal right now is to get the biggest employment bang for the buck." So says one of Jimmy Carter's advisers, defending what may become the most debated aspect of the President-elect's multifaceted economic program: his plan to create nearly a million jobs over the next two years by adding $4 billion and possibly as much as $8 billion to federal spending on public works projects and public service jobs...
...million extra watts of power to run the city's radios and television sets that Sunday afternoon. The Chiefs' victory that year was won amid a gambling investigation during which the name of Quarterback Lenny Dawson arose. President Richard Nixon made two of his famous locker-room calls to buck up Dawson and Coach Hank Stram...
...controversy over the South Korean Trade Association's gift of $1 million to the East Asian Studies Department has sparked a chorus of denials, rationalizations, and hypocritical buck-passing from the Harvard administration, anxious to preserver its facade of liberal enlightenment. The KTA, closely tied to the Korean CIA, has been the conduit for funds from the right-wing Park dictatorship to influential policy-making institutions like Harvard in an attempt to buy further American economic and military aid. Park's regime has carried out massive executions and merciless tortures of those who dare to protest the miserably impoverished lives...