Word: candor
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...attention to hunters." In fact, even some environmentalists give the flamboyant Arnett his due, applauding his battle for more funds for the Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as his quiet scuttling of the appointment of an unqualified Reagan crony as director of the agency. They even appreciate his candor. Says one longtime adversary: "Ray is 100% honest. If he's going to oppose you, he'll tell you before he does, while he's doing it and after he's done...
...Warren H. Phillips, the Journal's chairman and chief executive, said, "Our news management told them to cover it as they would any other company or paper. Just get it all out." The lengthy front-page story that resulted made melancholy reading, but was commendable for its candor. Winans may not have profited from the leaks, but a free-spending colleague, David J. Carpenter, who worked at the Journal for 18 months, might have. The Journal report was remarkably blunt: "The two are lovers . . . They live together, and Mr. Winans wears a gold ring given...
Possibly influenced by the courage and candor all around him, Arnold Palmer has just taken to wearing a small hearing aid at 54. "I never thought I'd do it," he says, "but I needed one, so I'm doing it. And you know what? Hitting a golf ball has a whole new different sound." A tour on the march, and Palmer at the point, is certainly familiar. "The galleries have been mostly our own vintage," says Palmer, who earned $106,590 last year. "But the younger set is starting to be attracted too." Though carts are essential...
...press's unpopularity has political implications that the White House has been quick to grasp. "I think resentment toward the press has been stepped up by the public relations genius of the Reagan Administration," says Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship. For all its affability, and its candor on issues it hopes to publicize, the Administration has been as vigorous as any other in recent years...
Miss Lillian contributed to Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign mainly by staying home in Plains and taking care of Granddaughter Amy, whom she called "my heart." But she also found time for speeches and TV interviews, charming the public with her ingenuous candor. That outspokenness continued after Carter's election, though her off-the-cuff comments sometimes could be embarrassing to the increasingly beleaguered President. During the Iranian hostage crisis, she blurted that she would like to have the Ayatullah Khomeini assassinated...