Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to thank you for your time and your candor in stating your position. I would hope that you will accept an equally frank response...
...conduct some clandestine operations abroad, and 2) it is impossible to carry out such missions if Congress, once briefed, reveals them to the press. (For Colby's views on the CIA'S role, see following interview.) In an effort to reduce the likelihood of a leak, Senator Frank Church's intelligence committee will recommend to Congress that the CIA be required to brief only two new committees-one in the House and one in the Senate-set up to oversee agency operations. A more significant and perplexing question is how much power Congress should have to stop...
...only loss for Harvard was a heartbreaker at number one. Bill P. Kaplan, playing a hard contest against Frank Giammeti won the first two games, but lost the third and the fourth. The final game was tied at 10, before Giammeti won five of the next six, and the match...
...Hindenburg. As Frank Rich said, if someone spent $15 million to produce this film someone else made off with a haul. The characterizations are so brief as to be virtually non-existent, and George C. Scott hardly has any Scottish lines, much less scenes. The last twenty minutes of disaster footage are okay, but not fantastic. The famous live broadcast by a radio newsman captures the essence of the film in around 30 seconds...
...Will is frank about the reasons for his general pessimism: "We've only had liberal, bourgeois civilization for about 200 years. That's not very long--it's a mere blink. No reason it will last forever. If you look at the depressing sweep of human history, I see no reason to believe that free societies, which took so long to come around and are so rare today--and indeed, are fewer today than they were ten years ago--I see no reason to believe that they're the wave of the future. They're certainly not the wave...