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When his friend Jimmy Carter was running for the presidency, Andrew Young had a gripe shared by many other voters: he couldn't figure out the candidate's stand on foreign policy. But then Young made up his mind that Carter's instincts must be right "if Jimmy's momma went to India in the Peace Corps." "Miss Lillian raised her boy Jimmy in a spirit of idealism mixed with the spirit of tough determination," said the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations last week in a speech before the Synagogue Council of America. The occasion...
...extend to his dealings with the officers. The Police Association objected, as one might have expected, to Gorski's imposition of a hiring freeze and to his brusque manner in shaking up what once had been a very comfortable department. But the union also had a new gripe; the changes, they said, were so drastic that they lowered morale in the force. Letteri and Henry Wise '18, the union's attorney, made the issue a key factor in contract negotiations last winter, saying they would not discuss monetary issues until the University came up with a solution to the "morale...
...weeks the American Bankers Association in Washington has been swamped with irate letters and phone calls from members. Their gripe: Bert Lance's flamboyant ways have given the business a black eye, and could subject it to far more intense Government scrutiny than now exists. Said ABA Spokesman Edward Smith: "The practices Lance is supposed to have followed cannot be considered normal or widespread. They just aren't tolerated in most banks...
...public pouts one expects of celebrated literary types. In Paris, apart from a couple of boorish flashes of temper, he lived an abundant life and made his strikingly craggy face familiar around the boulevards. He also continued to write and yearn for literary immortality. Even when he did gripe about reviewers, one could wonder whether he really cared what they were saying-or even quite understood. "They just said I was a bad writer, bad grammar, blah, blah, blah," he told one interviewer. It was as if the fine points of writing did not matter that much to his work...
...decision of Marvin Barnes, the $300,000-a-year Piston star. Barnes faces a jail term for violating parole, stemming from a 1974 conviction for assault, and he said he would rather begin serving his sentence now than perform with his team in the N.B.A. playoffs. His main gripe against the Pistons: for a player of his quality-and on a good night he can be incandescent-he does not play enough. If Coach Herb Brown thinks his play has fallen off, it is, he says, because jail looms. "I've got to serve time. It's affecting...