Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other airlines. At Miami-based Eastern, net income for the first half increased ten times, and the second-quarter results of $19.5 million were the best in the company's history. But part of the increase was due to a temporary wage freeze urged by former Astronaut Frank Borman, who became the airline's chief executive in December. Though unions may not go along, Borman has asked employees to consider a profit-increasing plan whereby they would receive perhaps 95% of normal wages in bad years and as much as 106% in good times...
...smiled back just as firmly behind set lips, because on important mornings you can forget to brush your teeth, and I wasn't taking any chances. And it came to pass that I entered Harvard, duly taking a folklore and mythology course (Hum 9b) where I read Dune, Frank Herbert's science fiction novel of ecology and political intrigue, for the fourth time...
...Said Frank Bare, executive director of the U.S. Gymnastics Federation: "The tiny point spreads she won by don't begin to indicate how much better she is than her nearest rivals. There has never been anyone like her, never been anyone who approaches...
Whether Powell's dual role as adviser and spokesman will be playable in Washington is a question. Yet many reporters say they would prefer him to the incumbent, Ron Nessen. And even Powell's critics are pleased at his ability to be frank with Carter, whom other aides revere as being above criticism. Listening to Carter promise a crowd that his staff would not exercise power as arrogantly as Richard Nixon's, Powell scoffed, "He just lost my vote." But then no man is a hero to his gofer...
...legendary M.C., Major Edward Bowes. Amateur Hour went on TV in 1948, and Mack ran the show until it died because of poor ratings in 1970. Among the future stars the show presented: Beverly Sills, Maria Callas, Ann-Margret, Pat Boone, and a skinny New Jersey kid named Frank Sinatra. Mack missed a couple: he rejected Elvis Presley and Tiny Tim. "Perhaps there was too much pelvis in Elvis," he explained, "and we're not the only ones to have said no to Tiny...