Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon relishes Pope John Paul II's trip to Poland. "Stalin asked how many divisions the Pope had," Nixon chortles. "The answer is one hell of a lot of divisions." Nixon catalogues the Soviet flaws: their economy is a "basket case," Eastern Europe is not so firm, the cost of Cuba is growing. The Soviets have that one damnable advantage of singleminded, purposeful, directed leadership...
...medical hours: The Lazarus Syndrome (starring Louis Gossett Jr.) and Trapper John, M.D. (a M* A* S* H spin-off starring Pernell Roberts and set 28 years after the Korean War). ABC's sitcom The Associates, from the creators of Taxi, takes place in a Wall Street law firm. Other new sitcoms are built around fatherless families, in imitation of CBS's long-running Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time. Shirley Jones, years ago a single mom in The Partridge Family, will do it again on NBC's hour-long Shirley. Eileen Brennan gets...
DIVORCED. Luci Johnson Nugent, 32, younger daughter of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson; and Pat Nugent, 36, partner in the firm that publishes the Texas State Directory; after 13 years of marriage, four children; in Austin...
...more makes him the richest American. Tough-minded and intensely shy, Ludwig is sole owner of his enterprises and thus must answer to no one. Operating from offices in Manhattan's Burlington House, he runs a maze of companies (he has 19 in Brazil alone). His flagship firm, National Bulk Carriers, operates one of the world's largest private fleets of huge supertankers and cargo ships. He is also proprietor of an array of global enterprises, which include the Princess hotel chain in Mexico, the Bahamas and Bermuda, oil refineries and a number of savings and loan associations...
...year from his position as ranking Southerner on the Ways and Means Committee so he would "have more time to spend with his family"; and Tommy Boggs, son of the former House Majority Leader, Hale Boggs, and lobbying quarterback for a team of more than 50 lawyers in the firm of Patten, Boggs and Blow. In addition, Chrysler's own executives are reputed to have met with over 100 legislators themselves...