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...source close to top Bendix management, members of the full board told Agee that Cunningham would have to go. The board includes such top business leaders as Burroughs Corp. Chairman Paul S. Mirabito, G.D. Searle President and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Equitable Life Chief Executive Coy G. Eklund. Moreover, Agee himself came under fire from the board for his handling of the situation. Cunningham, thereupon, quickly stepped down and issued a statement that rumors "impaired my ability to carry out my responsibilities as a corporate officer of Bendix...
This is not a gentle image. Indeed, Schwartz takes her title from Andrew Marvell's poem To His Coy Mistress...
...past, Reagan has repeatedly called for the rejection of SALT II, but in his Chicago speech, he retreated into coy equivocation, suggesting he might continue SALT and seek reductions in the next round of negotiations. That is almost identical to Carter's present policy...
...England voters should show they want men of candor--not the coy openness of Carter's "I will never tell a lie" but an intellectual frankness about specific proposals and ideas. This sort of discourse has a way of dispelling the fog of political war; it exposes blithe folksiness for unprincipled ambition, stern patriotism for irresponsible battle-lust...
...Beatles, who were beloved by all, and the Rolling Stones, who were even then playing devil's advocate in the Beatles' bright shadow. The Who made its first American appearance in 1965. Two years later, back again, the group was supporting Herman's Hermits on tour, giving those coy little gnomes nightly musical lumps and attracting a loyal band of American supporters...