Word: donald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Donald Mullin, the president of Teamsters 496, told the council that in Boston, where most cabbies lease their taxis, if a driver "books $60 in a shift after gas and oil he'll make $13.50. "If a cabbie is driving for a company, he will clear close to $30 in a shift, Mullins added...
...York Bureau Chief Donald Neff, who arrived a day later with Correspondent John Tompkins, it was a troubling journey. "As a child," he explains, "I used to spend my summers in Goldsboro, a small town just across the river from Three Mile Island, and I remember roaming the island in search of Indian arrowheads and swimming from its shores. My mother, sister and other relatives still live in the area. For the first time in years, I was gazing at Three Mile again, sensing now more than just its mystery. For the first time the island, with its cooling towers...
...Editor Ben Bradlee had "got him." The New York Times reported differences in "management policies" between Bradlee and Geyelin. Other handicappers noted that Geyelin's star may have faded when his chief patron, Post Chairman Katharine Graham, 61, stepped down as publisher last January in favor of Son Donald, 33-and that, apparently, is closest to the truth. Donald Graham simply felt that Geyelin was beginning to run out of steam...
...sale this week in U.S. college and trade bookstores. Already selling briskly in Europe and Latin America, the cheeky seriocomics treat great thinkers with snappy drawings and humorous cartoon panels, presumably to appeal to the generation and others intimidated by reading the originals. "We're combining the popular Donald Duck form with serious intellectual thought," argues Pantheon Books' Tom Engelhardt, U.S. editor of the series' first title, the 158-page Marx for Beginners...
...evidence of the Marx comic book which has been translated into seven languages and has sold 150,000 copies worldwide, the Donald Duck part of the effort is a success. Produced by award-winning Mexican Political Cartoonist Eduardo del Rio under the pseudonym Rius, the book relies on a barnyard of impish figures to add humor to the story of "Charlie" Marx ("Wasn't he one of the Marx Brothers?"one character asks early on). The book dances quickly through a field as woolly as the history of philosophy prior to Marx. For example, France...