Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign began to gear up, there was bad blood between Ehrlichman and John N. Mitchell. When Clark MacGregor took over, the same friction persisted. Ehrlichman wanted a bigger voice in strategy, and his differences with MacGregor grew to the point that the two had to have it out, with Haldeman as mediator. Haldeman noted that Ehrlichman had made his point-and backed MacGregor. It was one of the rare times the two friends came down on different sides of a problem. As time went on, both seemed to feel the Government of the U.S. was synonymous with the presidency. Ehrlichman...
...months, but he and his girlfriend, Susan Petz, were looking good. Like me, they were both a little red. He told me he had made a lot of money during the campaign and nothing so far in '73, but he and his partners would be back in high gear this fall, advising "four or five" senatorial campaigns. Wow, I thought, this guy's already doing serious work, he seems to have cast a longer shadow than almost any other recent graduate I knew. Before I had worried whether or not he would slip and just become another Harvard political instrument...
...major diversification for the $2 billion-a-year company. Last week United made a deal to swap $750 million of its stock for the Signal Companies, headquartered in Beverly Hills. Signal had $1.5 billion in sales last year from drilling oil and gas, manufacturing Garrett gas turbines and aerospace gear, and making Mack trucks. If shareholders and trustbusters approve, the deal will make United the nation's 24th largest manufacturer...
...worked his way through medical school as a milkman. He preferred to travel light, live like an Eskimo and depend on his ingenuity. On one expedition to the Antarctic he saved his ship from the ice by using the bodies of penguins as bumpers. He designed clever gear, including a sled that could be converted into a kayak...
...Many are like the Long Trail, which runs 262 miles through Vermont from Canada to Massachusetts, where you can even find primitive shelters every six miles or so-just in case you forget how to raise your tent properly. An investment of $150 or so will buy all the gear you need. Clearly it is the last great vacation bargain...