Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charge of the task force he had recommended. He plans to consult the Congressional Budget Office and several other agencies, then report to the Senate when it reconvenes after Labor Day. He said with relief: "A lot of steam has come out of the effort, allowing the fever to cool off and calm to reassert itself. It's too much, too soon. It is a good program for the 1990s, not something you have to pass in the summer of 1979. We might create a monster we can't get rid of." Agreed Abe Ribicoff: "We have...
Teddy Kennedy this week will be camping in the cool Berkshires. Ronald Reagan is taking off the entire month of August. Jimmy Carter hopes for an interlude soon on an ocean island, savoring a fisherman's solitude. Not Baker...
...formal debriefings on their return, and U.S. athletes will have lots of free advice for colleagues who stayed home. Some priority items for 1980: Tang (orange juice is hard to come by), sleep masks for Moscow's 3:30 a.m. midsummer sunrise, heavier warmup suits for the cool evening air, and native American interpreters...
Jackson's public meetings with blacks were warm, emotional affairs, his private meeting with executives of U.S. corporations predictably though and cool. An ardent opponent of American investment in South Africa, Jackson was unimpressed by token attempts of some of the 350 American firms doing business in the country to challenge apartheid. Said he: "U.S. companies don't realize that real issue is not just providing social services but social change...
...truth-seeking in the desert. He chooses a simmering patch of wasteland east of Berkeley, Calif., and in a few hours discovers that his dry run is the real thing. As he waits under a road sign for his wife to return, a jackrabbit bounds into his shadow to cool off. This is followed by three rapid epiphanies. First, that his life was a gift to himself and others and that even his share of sunlight and shadow did not belong to him alone. Second, that "he was not trapped into surviving by the currency of the acceptably real." Third...