Word: desertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Townsend's blast points to a potentially serious political problem for the President: the businessmen who have been his strong supporters may desert him if a recession really begins to bite. Last week Administration aides hinted that Ford may modify his package of anti-inflation proposals, notably the 5% income surtax, if the economic situation warrants it. But the feeling so far is by no means unanimous, even among auto executives, who mostly declined to join Townsend's attack on the Ford program. Speaking at an automotive engineers' convention last week, Ford Motor President Lee Iacocca said...
Until they got to know the trainmen, the two widows could scarcely have been more isolated. Their three-room cottage sits up in the sere San Bernardino Mountains, on the desert's run northeast of Los Angeles. They have no car or telephone; their mailbox is a mile and a half down a dusty track filled with gulleys and rattlesnakes. But every day a Southern Pacific freight snakes uphill just 25 yds. from their door. For the past five years, Ronnie McGillick, 67, and Loretta Tumulty, 74, have been giving cookies to the train crews. So far, they have...
...favorite movie when they were are kid (for boys especially, since there are no women in the film, although some girls might have had a weakness for Peter O'Toole's blue eyes--the effect heightened by eyedrops--at that age), and a second look is disillusioning. The desert looks phony (even though shot on location), and in re-release the picture was cut mercilessly. Omar Sharif is probably the biggest deadhead in screen history, too. Made by David Lean over several years with a great deal of money, and brought out in 1962 when it won a host...
Yasser Arafat, 44, still wears the green fatigues, desert boots and bullet-studded pistol belt of an underground fighter. But the founder of al-Fatah and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization is now more politician and diplomat than guerrilla commander. He travels almost constantly around the Arab world, shoring up support for his movement. Arafat's zeal for the Palestinians' cause is undiminished, reported TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager after an interview with the P.L.O. chairman in Beirut, but it has become tempered with pragmatism. Excerpts...
Sons of the Desert (Laurel and Hardy) and The Dove (parody of Ingmar Bergman), Friday and Saturday...