Word: clout
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...also be and talk, as she might say, rough as a cob. Not surprisingly, she turns out to be a moralist. Pornography shocks her. So does wife swapping. Homosexuals are "lovey-dovey gay boys" and feminists are YLib loonies." A harried husband, she says, "should stand up and clout the Old Lady a couple of times just to let her know he's still boss." Pauline was the John Wayne of madams, with an admixture of Mae West. Like her book, she was a splendid period piece...
...light of the current flap over the convention contributions of International Telephone and Telegraph. Written six weeks before the ITT controversy erupted, the letter is the first definite link in San Diego between the convention and the Justice Department. It also confirms that Kalmbach and his law firm have clout in representing Nixon in the West. Indeed, Kalmbach's career is a case study in the good fortune that can befall a tireless political fund raiser...
...Boldt's Pay Board thumbed down a 20.9% first-year raise for West Coast longshoremen. The board voted instead to allow a 14.9% increase, generous by almost any standard. The move represented the first time that the board had refused any sizable demand from a union with the clout to inflict serious damage on the economy by striking. The board did reduce an aerospace workers' contract increase from 12% to 8% earlier this year, but that industry was already so weak that the workers were not likely to risk walking...
Since Australia's 150,000 aborigines constitute only about 1% of the country's population, they have never had much clout in Australian politics. Last December, however, militant young "Abos," calling themselves "black Australians," staged a violent demonstration in Brisbane. For the past month, to dramatize their case for land rights, they have been operating an eleven-tent "Abo Embassy" across from Parliament House in Canberra. "We are tired of hanging around the white man's door waiting for crumbs," cried Abo Journalist John Newfong. The Abos' next target: Interior Minister Ralph Hunt, whom they hope...
FRONT RUNNERS. Eliminating the clout of favorite sons and organized labor has had the net effect of aiding the party's front-running candidate Edmund Muskie. Encouraged to commit themselves earlier, the power brokers tend to go with the man they see as most likely...