Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former Congressman who is Governor of Louisiana, acknowledged that in 1971 his wife Elaine had taken an envelope containing $10,000 in cash as a "gift" from Tongsun Park. Democratic Congressman John Brademus of Indiana says he received $4,700 in campaign contributions from him in 1972 and 1974. Investigators are looking into the possible involvement of other Congressmen, including Democrats Otto Passman of Louisiana (the recently defeated head of the House committee that handles foreign aid), Robert Leggett of California, Joseph Addabbo of New York and Republican William Broomfield of Michigan. They are also examining...
Others objected that a gift for grabbing headlines is often mistaken for leadership. Said Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce Joseph Blatchford, 42: "Historians don't pay tribute to those who are not activist but who are exerting great leadership nonetheless." Westchester County Executive Alfred Del Bello. 42. agreed. "The [quiet] person who knows how to use the complex forces at work today doesn't necessarily get on the TV screen, but certainly is responsible...
...Party, met his bride last year while participating in one of her conferences on "the use and abuse of power." That weekend, says Spock, "we fell madly in love." For the wedding in Little Rock, Ark., the county clerk's office presented the couple with its standard gift: a bag containing mouthwash, deodorant and window-cleaning spray...
...Prize for Literature, Saul Bellow was in a fine position to judge-and make light of-official literary honors. He had won most of them already: honorary degrees, citations from governments and academies, three National Book Awards (a record), and, last May, a Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt 's Gift. At a brief press conference after the Nobel announcement, Bellow remarked characteristically, "I'm glad to get it. I could live without it." His fellow countrymen appeared more pleased. Not only had the Nobel Committee picked a man whose literary works many Americans have read in the original...
...always thrill to the hothouse introspection of Herzog (1964). Those who can get along with the serious, well-mannered author of Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947) are likely to gasp at the wisecracking Borscht Belt comic who hoofs onstage during parts of Humboldt's Gift. The picaresque hero of The Adventures of Augie March (1953) is a brash New World kid, while a wise Old World man fills the title role of Mr. Sammler's Planet...