Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Angelo wanted to follow Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labor Party campaign for a while, she would trade places with TIME's men on the bus: veteran Correspondents Erik Amfitheatrof, Frank Melville and Arthur White. Amfitheatrof, who covered the 1976 Italian general election as a TIME correspondent in Rome and has reported on the sometimes unruly politics of Africa and the Mediterranean, was delighted to find this campaign unmistakably British. He recalls watching Callaghan at a whistlestop, a cup of tea in his hand, plunging into the crowd and politely imploring them: "Forgive me for having...
...office that the N.H.C. maintains in New York City. Long an ideologue of the humanities, Frankel has defined the tightrope Bennett and the fellows must walk. The center is not for "the leisure of the theoried class," he says. But scholarship, on the other hand, "must be free to follow crooked paths to unexpected conclusions...
...practices more into line with those being urged on foreign companies there by the Common Market and by the U.S.'s Rev. Leon Sullivan, the General Motors director who has drawn up a list of fair labor practices that many American firms in South Africa have agreed to follow. To judge by the angry reaction of several of South Africa's white labor leaders, the Wiehahn proposals must seem fairly far reaching. Wessel Bornman, chief secretary of the all-white 38,000-member Iron, Steel and Allied Industries Union, denounced them as "a slap in the face...
...Peru, which also plan elections to replace military juntas. For a time, it seemed the vote in Ecuador might never take place. Fearing that Roldós, a protégé of Asaad Bucaram, an abrasive populist who founded the Concentration of Popular Forces Party (C.F.P.), would follow up his first-place finish in last summer's preliminary balloting with a victory, the military men who have ruled Ecuador since 1972 delayed the runoff for more than six months. That allowed the conservatives who opposed Roldós to mount a scare campaign that implied his election would...
...directors follow two high school basketball stars, a black from Brooklyn and a small-town Wasp from Lebanon, Ind., as they endure the victories and defeats of senior year. The overall message is a real doozy: sports are a metaphor for society. From this profound insight, the film embraces all the sociological idiocies that Albert Brooks satirized in Real Life...