Word: bunkerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French live a bleak life together in a buried bunker on the island. Even drinking water must be flown in, along with food and supplies. For sanity's sake the men are rotated frequently to larger French islands. But while they are on Tromelin, they undoubtedly dream about the island's one famous resident: an 18th century female Robinson Crusoe who was washed ashore as the lone survivor of a shipwreck. She subsisted on food that floated in from the wreck, until a passing schooner spotted the bright yellow dress she had hoisted as a distress flag...
...America, the Evangelical movement stands in an equivocal position. It is large but not organized, and often fragmented by arguments over matters like the "inerrancy" of the Bible. But the movement is now richer and more powerful than it has been in half a century. Men like Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, Presbyterian son of H.L. Hunt, are prepared to help it. Hunt is head of Bill Bright's international executive committee, and considers the stupendous goal of raising $1 billion "absolutely realistic." Bright's overall chairman, Baptist Wallace Johnson (the "praying millionaire" of Holiday Inns), travels 20,000 miles...
Here in the Chicago area one Sunday evening, the 8 p.m. offerings on the VHF channels were the rape of Edith Bunker, Leslie Ann Warren's path to prostitution on 79 Park Avenue and a movie about mob violence in the trucking industry. Our choice? UHF with an old Esther Williams movie. Silly, but better for family viewing...
...recent Gallup poll indicated that the more Americans know about the treaties, the more likely they are to favor ratification. Hoping that grass-roots approval will be reflected in Washington, the Administration has sent Negotiators Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz on the road to drum up support for the treaties. The Panamanians have said si, but for the U.S. Senators it's still wait...
DIED. Laurence E. Bunker, 75, former chief aide to General Douglas MacArthur; of cancer; in Boston. Bunker retired from the Army in 1952, following Truman's dismissal of the five-star general from his Korean command. During the '50s, Bunker became a member of the national council of the John Birch Society...