Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loud as Senator Henry Jackson or as brilliant as Senator Hubert Humphrey or as tough as House Democratic Caucus Chairman Phillip Burton. But he has a measure of real power in his committee chairmanship, and he talks quiet good sense in the ocean of babble. At 61 he looks 45, and he is three years along in a second marriage. He was once a high school teacher and then a builder. Now he is Baker, Ore.'s answer to Grand Rapids, Mich...
...cover story is a sales report of sorts. The goods are TOWs, AK-47s, F-5s, MIG-23s, C-130s, Uzi submachine guns and French commando daggers - commodities in one of the world's busiest and potentially most lethal markets, the world arms trade. Associate Editor Burton Pines and Reporter-Researcher Genevieve Wilson began working on the intricate story several weeks ago, as the already staccato pace of major arms deals accelerated. "The most startling figure we found," Wilson says, "is that arms sales have increased 6000% since 1952, from $300 million to $18 billion." Adds Pines...
Anne of the Thousand Days, with Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujoid, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8 and March...
...rivalry between Burton and O'Neill has been especially intense. The two have fallen into at least two emotional quarrels. Burton on one occasion threatened to settle the matter with fists...
...this succession struggle, the adroit Burton is a less reliable ally than Hays may suspect. When the Steering Committee first voted to remove Hays as chairman of the Administration Committee, one of the secret votes to do that, TIME has learned, was cast by Burton. It was only when Burton sensed how alarmed many of the party's elder but still influential members were over this assault on seniority that Burton decided that his own future might be imperiled if he publicly joined the move against Hays. Burton then worked openly to help Hays keep his post...