Word: hesse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Thomas B. Hess, 57, former editor of Art News magazine, who last February became chairman of 20th century art at the Metropolitan Museum; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As art critic for New York magazine in the 1970s, Hess kept alive his romance with abstract expressionism...
...Carter Administration and the press have recently been at an unhappy low, there are some who reason that by a President's second year, things are usually that way. Others blame the situation either on the shortcomings of the press or on Carter's people. But Stephen Hess, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, thinks "a more basic reason is boredom...
...fact is that Jimmy Carter and his entourage bore the Washington press corps," Hess writes in the Washington Post. "Reporters in the capital have had a steady diet of excitement in recent years-with the exception of the brief Ford interregnum-and have come to require bigger and bigger doses of news intoxicants." Certainly neither Vance nor Brzezinski is as fascinating as Kissinger (their side comments are never as memorable as his), and Carter isn't as outlandish as Lyndon Johnson or as malignant as Nixon. What to do then...
Stretcher-bearers and emergency workers were confronted with tons of debris−steel, concrete and boards−piled 6 to 10 ft. high on the floor of the tower. "There was so much stuff on the ground you couldn't see the bodies," said Construction Worker Bill Hess. Rescuers worked frantically for six hours to pull apart the debris, but found no survivors...
Hundley has defended former Attorney General John Mitchell; Democratic Fund Raiser W. Dale Hess, one of the figures in the corruption trial starring Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel; Gulf Oil Lobbyist Claude C. Wild Jr.; a number of FBI agents implicated in illegal searches; and even, briefly, Richard Nixon...