Word: david
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Camp David, President Carter flashed a quick message via satellite to Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Said the President: "I was concerned to learn that fragments of Skylab may have landed in Australia." Carter instructed the Department of State to offer assistance. None, however, was needed...
...withdraw more than $1 billion in pension and other funds from New York's Manufacturers Hanover bank unless it dumped two of its directors, who also held seats on the Stevens board. The bank quickly caved in and failed to renominate Stevens Chairman James D. Finley and David W. Mitchell, chairman of Avon Products. Two weeks later Mitchell, deluged with letters from union sympathizers threatening a boycott of Avon goods, also quit as a Stevens director...
...Demeanor, John Casey ∙The Living End, Stanley Elkin -Wild Oats, Jacob Epstein NONFICTION: Bay of Pigs, Peter Wyden ∙Billy Graham, Marshall Frady ∙Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙Confession and Avoidance, Leon Jaworski ∙The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Powers That Be, David Halberstam ∙To Set the Record Straight, John J. Sirica
When journalists try to catch Kennedy off base on specific issues, notes Esquire National Editor Richard Reeves, he "can be creatively incoherent." Elaborates David Broder, the Washington Post's national political columnist...
...agent of Moscow, McCarthy demanded a "patriotic boycott" of Adam hats for sponsoring Pearson's broadcasts and drove him off the air. In return, Pearson uncovered McCarthy 's phony war record, and then, by recounting the shabby antics of McCarthy's assistants Roy Cohn and G. David Schine, did much to destroy McCarthy...