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Griffin Bell was more forthright. Said he: "We have two parties in this country. The In party right now happens to be the Democrats. There are a lot of complaints about Mr. Marston. They say we ought to have a Democrat as U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's Merit | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...Knesset since Israel's founding, had the imaginative gifts to become a statesman once power was his. The flexibility he has demonstrated in responding to Cairo's peace initiatives so far indicates that the answer well may be yes. Begin should have no trouble taking forthright moves for he is bolstered by his enormous self-confidence. His countrymen appreciate this. According to a popular apocryphal story currently making the rounds in Israel, the Premier's wife Aliza ruins an omelet that she is preparing in the kitchen. In frustration she cries out: "Oh God!" Answers Menachem from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Begin: Partner for Peace | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

TAGEN IS THE artistic anchor in Aja: he plays synthesizer, writes, and sings backup vocals (the credits list no lead vocals, a forthright statement about instrumental priority) on every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Something Old, Something New | 10/11/1977 | See Source »

...curiously compulsive monologuist. Whether lolling with a weekend visitor by a sleepy lagoon outside his luxurious beach house, La Favorita, in the Dominican Republic or lecturing to an awed audience in his company's baronial headquarters suite overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, Bluhdorn fearlessly offers his forthright and often funny opinions on such disparate topics as acquisition strategy ("I want to buy things no one else wants"), American businessmen ("They have surrounded themselves in a citadel where everyone else was below them"), ideology ("I am a capitalist and I don't intend to change"), even China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Blues for Mr. Charlie | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Donald J. Hall, LL.D., president of Hallmark Cards, Inc. While commerce is your domain, mankind is your business, and you serve it with forthright conviction and boundless devotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 3 | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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