Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheet-metal tipping on a southbound mail flight from Chicago." Again, "my DH throttle mechanism broke and closed a hundred feet above ground over Illinois." The only lighting equipment his planes had in those days consisted of "a pocket flashlight (pilot furnished) and a compass light attached to a button on the end of the stick...
Trivial as some of these matters may seem, Ruth Clusen, president of the League of Women Voters (which often rallies its troops in local battles over ballot issues), declares that the referendum "is the ultimate tool in the hands of the people." Says Fred Button, an expert on voter attitudes: "It's healthy when the public thinks it has a piece of the action. It's a safety valve. The people don't do any better and they don't do any worse than the legislators." Washington-based officials of the U.S. Conference of Mayors tend...
...office in a converted second-floor storeroom. He blames Medford's problems mostly on the crowding produced when 1,100 freshmen were jammed in with the three upper classes?but not on any lack of spirit. Other principals might give up; not he. A giant blue and white button on his lapel broadcasts his philosophy. It is emblazoned MEDFORD PRIDE...
...Word may not yet have reached the provinces, but in this capital, Mr. Carter is being talked of as a one-term President " The same day in the New York Times, Wicker re-examined his score card and hit the panic button: "People who think and talk about politics are beginning to ask^each other openly: Is Jimmy Carter a one-term President...
...dwell in Washington's echo chamber, the amplification ot their own and their colleagues' voices easily becomes further confirmation of what they have been saying. By mid-October, Tom Wicker was asking, "Is it yet time for those whc have wished him well to press the panic button about the performance of President Carter?" Wicker answered himself: "On this score card, the answer...