Word: fixit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past few months, Gerald Parsky, 32, seems to have emerged out of nowhere to become one of official Washington's brightest new Wunderkinder-and the youngest Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ever. Parsky serves Treasury Secretary William Simon as confidant, emissary and all-round Mr. Fixit. He sees Simon a dozen times daily and often closes his 14-hour workday chatting with his chief over soggy pizza and a couple of fingers of Scotch. With his wife and two children, Parsky sometimes spends Sunday, his only day off, at the Simon estate in Virginia...
...Fixit." The President has offered the high post of Ambassador to Britain to Senator J. William Fulbright, 69, the Foreign Relations Committee chairman who was defeated in the Arkansas primary. He would be a considerable improvement over Ambassador Walter Annenberg, a millionaire Nixon friend. But Fulbright's wife is ill and he will postpone a decision until after he returns next week from China...
Judge Sirica is our modern David who slew Goliath Nixon by steadfastly insisting that our country's laws be upheld and respected in the Anglo-American tradition, rather than be flexed and molded to meet the needs of "FixIt Nixon...
Like a Mr. Fixit, at the two-day NATO meeting, the Secretary was-as diplomats have it-firm but conciliatory, trying to soothe the feelings that had been bruised by his own harsh words, by the surprise alert of American forces in the last days of the Middle Eastern war, and by U.S.-Soviet agreements that the Europeans believe have been made over their heads...
...friends, Astronaut Charles ("Pete") Conrad Jr. is known as "Mr. Fixit." During his youth, his mother recalls, he spent hours with Erector sets, model planes and finally cars and motorcycles. While in quarantine after his Apollo 12 moon-landing, he assembled a complex stereo system. Last week the 43-year-old Navy captain continued to live up to his reputation as Houston's No. 1 amateur mechanic. During a daring and dangerous four-hour walk in space-the longest ever attempted-he and Fellow Astronaut Joseph Kerwin freed Skylab's jammed solar wing, thus probably saving the mission...