Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tiant, 38, entered the free-agent draft when the Red Sox management refused to offer him anything more than a one-year contract, because of his age. The herky-jerky motioned pitcher was not selected until the eighth round and by only one team--the Yanks...
That same night Begin ordered his Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman, to fly from Washington to Jerusalem to seek Cabinet support on late developments in the negotiations. This led to speculation that a tentative agreement might be at hand. By that time the draft treaty had been revised at least seven times, and most of the problems had been either solved or sidestepped. Chief among these was the question of "linkage" between an Egyptian-Israeli treaty and further negotiations on the West Bank and Gaza. The two sides agreed to discuss the matter both in a preamble to the treaty...
...costly and complex to run, especially for smaller banks, the future may well lie with the simpler system of negotiable order of withdrawals, or NOWS. Here a customer need only open a single savings account and when he wants to pay a bill, write a withdrawal order: a draft that looks like a check and can be used...
DIED. John Allison, 73, U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1953 to 1957; in Honolulu. A consul in Osaka when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Allison was interned for six months before his repatriation. As deputy to Chief Negotiator John Foster Dulles, Allison helped draft the Japanese peace treaty in 1952 and in 1954 signed a mutual defense pact under which the U.S. bolstered the Japanese economy with $100 million...
...plan the book, though. For 15 years, she kept a notebook on every production, doubting her words would ever be published. The first draft of The Bright Lights emerged over a four-month period of continuous work. Seldes bubbles with enthusiasm for her editor, Jonathan Galassi--"his very youth was an asset"--and for the contributions of an editor in general. In contrast to the relationship between an actor and a director, an editor is "like another self, another set of eyes"; "no interference"impedes his rapport with the writer. An actor and his director, on the other hand...