Word: carding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parity with what U.A.W. members get in the North. Unions, ironically, have been victimized by their own success in making company-paid pensions, medical insurance, longer vacations and similar fringes universal. Even the sons and daughters of diehard unionists feel they have no need to sign a union card in order to enjoy high pay, generous benefits and pleasant working conditions at big, high-technology firms like IBM, Kodak and Texas Instruments...
...Required meeting with proctors. You do have to go to this, because your proctor will give you your own personal Bursar's Card, which proves that you go to Harvard. It gets you into libraries and dinning halls, not to mention out of trouble with the police. A handy tool, and it'll cost you ten bucks if you lost it. Also at this meeting, you proctor will introduce you to everyone else in your dorm or entryway. And he'll give you the standard rap on drugs and sex. And there will be free beer. 10:00 p.m. Party...
...White House correspondent, Barrett naturally spends a certain amount of time trying to fill in his blank "dance card" with high-level sources in the Carter camp. But the broad terms of the job are as familiar to him as the keys on a typewriter. For 20 years, Barrett has made U.S. politics his beat. A graduate of Columbia's School of Journalism, he joined the New York Herald Tribune in 1957. Soon he became the Tribune's city hall bureau chief, with a regular column, "City Hall Beat," and wrote The Mayor of New York, a then...
...conspirator in the King slaying. The committee members poked small but significant holes in Ray's story. Ray insisted that when he left Los Angeles in March 1968, he had not decided to go to Atlanta, where King lived. The committee produced a change-of-address card mailed in Los Angeles asking that Ray's mail be forwarded to general delivery, Atlanta. Similarly, Ray claimed he was not pursuing King in Atlanta on April 1 of that year, but the committee introduced an Atlanta laundry slip for that date bearing the name of the alias Ray had been...
...serious fiction. His second novel, The Fortunate Pilgrim, drew heavily on his childhood experiences. Again he found an audience of enthusiastic reviewers, but few paying readers. The author remained a hermit to New York literary life, though he had some close writing friends. Among those in his regular card-playing group was Joseph Heller. Recalls Puzo: "I used to get mad at him and throw his papers around. How could I know that the stuff was going to be Catch...