Word: bunkerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People's attitudes and shifting political perceptions, as catalogued in the Gallyp and Harris polls, could even be cranked into a central information system. That of course suggests some Strangelovian scenes such as Hamilton Jordan, Carter's top pol, in a domestic command bunker, farm boots up on the computer console, phone in hand, lights flashing across huge screens: "Get Strauss out to Pittsburgh. The steel areas are angry red ... Tell Califano to shut up on tobacco. North Carolina has dropped off the map ... Can Brown pump some defense contracts into the West Coast? Unemployment is edging...
...Charles Colson have testified they had notified him of events. The tone is set for a revision of contemporary history. He admits being aware of the use of the CIA to halt the FBI inquiry, but makes it seem all his subordinates' doing, with the president as a bunker-isolated entity to be told of the progress of campaigns off somewhere on distant Eastern Fronts. This may have been true, though the tapes dispute it. No rationale for such a complete alienation of the Compleat Politician from his own campaign is given, nor is it admitted...
...disheartened group of Harvard linksters who came into the clubhouse after the morning 18, but then they realized the rest of the field was also finding bunker shots comparable to hitting into a sand storm in the Gobi desert...
...picked up a birdie on the 13th, a 395-yard par four with water guarding the green. Dales nailed a two-iron off the tee and feathered a nine-iron in for a gimmie putt. He saved par on the next hole when his explosion shot from a greenside bunker landed stony...
...Milliken, 64, turned down the request. So T. Roland Berner, 67, Curtiss-Wright's chairman, declared war by nominating a slate headed by himself to take control. The rather geratic group includes George Moore, 72, former chairman of Citicorp; Robert Meyner, 69, former Governor of New Jersey; George Bunker, 70, former chairman of Martin Marietta; and Fred Kirby II, 58, chairman of Alleghany Corp. and Investors Diversified Services, the mutual fund concern. Curtiss-Wright said its nominees "believe that Kennecott management, instead of paying $567 million to buy Carborundum Co., should have used that cash directly for the benefit...