Word: edward
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Trying to quiet the striking truckers, President Carter met with Senator Edward Kennedy last week at the White House to announce their joint sponsorship of a sweeping new plan to deregulate the trucking industry. The Government would stop regulating rates, freight and entry requirements, steps that the Administration estimates would save the public $5 billion a year in shipping costs. In a report sent to Congress, Carter attacked the present system, which puts the independents at a competitive disadvantage. "Collective rate making, commonly known as price fixing, is normally a felony," he wrote. "But the trucking industry has enjoyed...
Then came more bad news: Lieut. General Edward Rowny, 62, a Jackson protégé and the Joint Chiefs of Staffs representative on the U.S. SALT negotiating team in Geneva, announced that he was resigning from the Army. Rowny has made no secret of his disapproval of SALT II, and he is expected to provide the treaty's opponents with ammunition, since he can speak authoritatively about the swaps that went on at the bargaining table
...earlier and more decorous age, a crude word-even if uttered by a President-would surely not be deemed fit to print. O tempora, O mores! When Jimmy Carter told a group of Congressmen at a White House dinner last week that if Senator Edward Kennedy runs against him in 1980, "I'll whip his ass," most major news organizations hastened to quote the remark in living off-color...
...DIED. Edward M. (Ned) Almond, 86, whip-cracking Army infantry commander who as Douglas MacArthur's chief of staff in Korea in September 1950 led the bold landing behind enemy lines on the treacherous shores of Inchon that turned the tide of the war; in San Antonio...
When food is not substantial enough, and you want drink, beware of those who check ID's. Gov. Edward J. King has spoken; you have to be 20 years old to imbibe. But with false credentials or a mature visage, you may have your pick of the bars and patrons...