Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founder-president of the National Jogging Association, I was greatly entertained by Frank Trippett's clever and amusing Essay, "Running a Good Thing into the Ground" [Sept. 11]. However, please tell Mr. Trippett that we joggers will just keep jogging along in the knowledge that we are doing ourselves and our country a service by reducing the cost of health care through our own do-it-yourself health-maintenance programs...
...Frank Trippett compares jogging with the fad of flagpole sitting. Instead of being happy that 25 million Americans are seeking physical fitness, he criticizes them. Would he rather have them watching television...
Blessed be Frank Trippett, for he shall be spared heel spurs...
...terms of practical politics, Carter could look forward to a stronger position vis-a-vis Congress, which has balked at many of his programs this year. The President's harassed chief of congressional liaison, Frank Moore, happily noted that the "atmosphere, the mood, the way you are received, has changed in the last couple of days." Confirming that viewpoint, the Senate gave Carter a notable victory last week. It voted more heavily than expected, 59 to 39, against recommitting his natural gas bill to a committee that would have killed it. That favorable tally indicates that the measure will...
...little to fight back against Agee's efforts to damage its reputation and hamper its operations. Civil charges against Agee for breaking his CIA secrecy contract?which were used successfully by the agency against ex-CIA Officer Frank Snepp, whose Decent Interval accused the U.S. of bungling the evacuation of Saigon?are ineffective because Agee is living abroad. Since 1977 he has been deported by Britain and France, and he is now in hiding, reportedly in Rome...