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...more than a decade. At the same time, Carter also announced that a close personal friend, Thomas Bertram Lance, 45, a bulky (6 ft. 4 in., 235 Ibs.), blunt-speaking banker and college dropout from the mountains of north Georgia, would direct his Office of Management and Budget (TIME, Dec. 6). For all their sharp differences in background and style, Vance and Lance (reporters who had impatiently awaited the announcement cracked that the pair sounded like a vaudeville team) seemed to fit the emerging Administration's needs. They symbolized experience, directness, a concern for efficiency...
...Dwight Eisenhower filled his first Cabinet jobs (State, Defense, and Interior) on Nov. 20, and completed the nominating process on Dec. 1. In 1960, John Kennedy made his first Cabinet announcement (Health, Education and Welfare) on Dec. 1 and his last on Dec. 17. In 1968, Richard Nixon withheld his choices until he could present his entire Cabinet on television on Dec...
Upon his arrival in Canada, government authorities granted Hughes the customary six-month tax holiday. Two weeks before it ended, he flew back to Managua, where no one bothered him about taxes. Then, in the early morning of Dec. 23, 1972, a series of earthquakes, rated at 6.25 on the Richter scale, struck the Nicaraguan capital, destroying 75% of the city and leaving 7,000 people dead...
Judging from the reactions of both those who make TV and those who watch it, Network, which opens in 15 cities on Dec. 17, has drilled into a sensitive national nerve. Overlong and preachy, exaggerated even within the bounds of satire, the movie nonetheless has the power of a frightening revelation (TIME, Nov. 29). Like the Frank Capra films of the '30s and '40s (particularly Meet John Doe), it is half entertainment and half message, a populist plea for the individual against inhuman institutions. But unlike the movies of those optimistic days, there is no happy ending...
...board voted 2 to 1 to grant the condemned man's plea that he stand "like a man" in front of a firing squad in the first U.S. execution in almost a decade. The following day, District Court Judge J. Robert Bullock set the execution date for sunrise, Dec. 6, just two days after Gilmore's 36th birthday. "That's acceptable," Gilmore said quietly...