Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even the limited role described by Fortas troubled many, including liberal friends. He admitted, for instance, that 21 months after donning the judicial robes, he had called a businessman friend, Ralph Lazarus, chairman of the board of Federated Department Stores, to chide him for questioning Administration estimates of war spending. Fortas refused to say whether Johnson had instigated the call, thereby leaving the impression that...
...more Republicans would not consider a Humphrey victory a disaster. Numbers of disenchanted Democrats, on the other hand, like Rockefeller. The trend is underscored by a recent Gallup survey. Among voters of all ages, 46% consider themselves Democrats, 27% Republicans, 27% independents. But among those under 30, only 38% call themselves Democrats and 22% Republicans. The remaining 40% regard themselves as independents?voters who are more concerned with current is sues and individual excellence than with traditional party labels or party loyalty...
...jobs. Since then, he has replaced all but one man in the twelve-member Cabinet with "good technicians." To halt inflation, which had boosted prices 200% in 18 months and forced five devaluations of the peso, he decreed a total wage and price freeze. The government encouraged housewives to call special telephone numbers to report price rises, took to closing down the violators for ten-day periods and trotting store managers off to jail...
...most European countries, even some of the Communist bloc, the alleged offenses would be classified as trivia. The Madrid daily El Alcazar, for example, was fined $375 for erroneously reporting that a Falangist leader had paid a call on Franco. A Barcelona editor was given an eight-month prison term for publishing a letter that denounced Catalan nationalism-a letter that echoed the government's own views. Why, then, was he punished? In a nation where veiled irony and subtle ridicule have been wielded so often in place of open criticism, nervous officials may detect calculated mischief-making even...
...friend who had been backstage informed us that he had it from Uncle T of the Freedom Machine that none of the organizers had any idea where the Who actually was. "They could be anywhere," he said. "In this business everybody lies. The manager of a group will call up from San Francisco and say they're being held up at the local Turnpike...