Word: candor
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Aroused, the current Labor government last spring sued to stop the London Sunday Times's serialization of the diaries and Publisher Jonathan Cape's book version. Attorney General Samuel Silkin argued that Cabinet discussions and civil servants' advice must remain forever inviolate to ensure their candor-a contention that the Guardian warned would "put an end to political journalism...
...acting as their go-between. Negotiations over Golan, however, promise to be considerably tougher than those over Sinai. At least initially, Jerusalem is expected to resist anything more than minor adjustments. From Israel's viewpoint, as a high-level Jerusalem official told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin with extraordinary candor, deliberate delay is especially advantageous...
Though the discussion is supposed to center on issues of scholarship, Mansfield said he feels that confidentiality of the meetings is necessary to insure candor by the participants. "Academics are good at telling someone their faults when they are inferior or in print," he said, "but on a face-to-face basis they tend to get either very angry or very inarticulate, and I think you could see this...
...foolishness enough when one of CBS's intrepid interrogators started asking Betty Ford a lot of personal questions and soon found that the First Lady's dedication to "candor" inspired her to hold forth on her husband's roving eye and her daughter's hypothetical sex life (TIME, Aug. 25). Although many Americans share Mrs. Ford's views, so many others complained that the President last week joked rather hyperbolically that his wife had just cost him 20 million votes. Now, however, it turns out that Mrs. Ford has still more to say about...
...considered a serious candidate for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination. Congressman Morris ("Mo") Udall, 53, a lanky, breezy Westerner, is not reluctant to press the comparisons. As a relatively obscure Representative from Arizona, he knows that his chief asset is going to be the impression he makes. With considerable candor, a skill at raillery and a gift for not taking himself too seriously, he makes friends fast-if not ardent converts to his presidential quest...