Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Helms [Nov. 14] was willing to risk his career to protect the security of his country; some Senators are willing to risk the security of their country to promote their careers...
...hope that when Helms reckons the cost of his adventurous career, he also adds in the lives lost to murder and torture in Chile since Allende was removed from office...
Oxford University denied Lewis a professorship because his popular writings were deemed unseemly-as, indeed, was his outspoken Christianity. (He moved to a chair at Cambridge late in his career.) But Lewis has survived Oxford's judgment handsomely. Sales of Lewis' works in Britain and the U.S. have increased sixfold since his death, and this year readers in both countries will take home more than 2 million Lewis volumes. Says Lady Priscilla Collins, one of Lewis' publishers in Britain: "The trend...
They were talking about Hackett's record-shattering performance in his first race as a Harvard swimmer. Hackett, a silver-medalist in the 1500-meter freestyle at the Montreal Olympics, opened his Harvard career Saturday by gilding, apparently effortlessly, to victory in the 200-yd. freestyle with a time...
...YEARS AGO Boz Scaggs was not attracting much attention. Despite a long career as a prominent session man and several well-respected albums, the beginning of '76 found him virtually nowhere on the all-important scale of commercial success. Several of his songs--"Loan Me a Dime," for example, and "Dinah Flo" were FM classics, but FM airplay is a notoriously poor way to pay the rent. It was the old story--a critical acclaim and cult following which did not translate into anything tangible and preferably green. His gradual evolution from rock to a bland middle-of-the-road...