Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...center" is beyond imagination. More than 850 boats have been towed up to this dockside in the past year. Their passengers stay on the boats--some of which are no more than glorified canoes--for about two or three weeks before there is room in the warehouses (the British call them "go-downs") for them. Inside the boats are shelves no more than 4 feet long and 12 inches high. People are crammed into these shelves after they pay their $10,000 to get out of Vietnam--and they don't move until the boat docks at Hong Kong...
...even if he wanted to. As a staunch Republican once remarked about Teddy Roosevelt, "We're going to nominate him by assault." In a way, it is now or never for Kennedy. Democratic Party leaders think they need him more than ever before; he must heed their call or risk mortally offending them. Democratic officeholders are showing signs of panic at the prospect of running on a ticket headed by Carter. A New England poll indicates that there would be a 16-point difference in the number of Democrats who turn out to vote if Kennedy...
However, there can be no doubt about the teaching credentials of Moses' successor. Barnaby has authored what many call The Book on squash...
...decades ago, the leader of that revolution, Fidel Ruiz Castro, was under attack at home and abroad. Today Cuban schoolchildren, when asked about their nation's leader, call him "padre," and he is one of the acknowledged, albeit controversial, leaders of the Third World...
Supply economics began to reemerge during the worldwide boom of 1971-73, when food, steel, chemicals and other basic industrial materials became scarce, helping to trigger the worldwide inflation. The initial intellectual reponse to that situation was a renewed call for economic planning: if industrial bottlenecks or world food supplies are the cause of inflation, then a more careful planning of capacity and production seems only logical. Not much came of this initiative as the economy sank into recession and slow growth, though traces of the planning philosophy can be found in the legislation that was finally passed under...