Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight teams came from all over the country. Because it is costly and impractical to move large computers, telephone hook-ups were used to connect the machines to teletypes, which were located in the tournament hall. Total phone bills for the tournament amounted to almost...
...practical and carefully worked out than it is." By implication, he admitted that like any professional, he should have double-checked the figures with disinterested experts. Wicker continues to support McGovern's general ideas about sharing the wealth, but declined to take himself-or the candidate-off the hook. What matters, he said, "is that expert economic analysis so impugns the program that it was either extremely careless or deceptive to put it forward in that form...
...cold as a fish and, in its handling and sleazy color, twice as slimy. But its sheer perversity of style-which extends even to such innocuous images of gaudy Latin American show biz as Amor, 1970-sticks in the mind (and the craw) like a hook...
...ranking members of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA-funded organization which was set up to ensure the loyalty of non-communist intellectuals all over the world to the interests of the emerging American empire. Koestler and Borkenau joined such right-wing figures as James Burnham and Sidney Hook in a war in which ideas were viewed as weapons only, intended to prevent any deviation, however slight, from the emerging American line. The style of these official anticommunists was a remarkable combination of intimidaation, ideoloGical doubletalk, and intellectual hooliganism...
Should the most productive nation in history continue to produce so lavishly? A call for a full-scale debate on the point has now come from Russell E. Train, chairman of President Nixon's Council on Environmental Quality. Last week Train voiced, on his own hook, the toughest line yet to come from a Nixon Administration official. "Most of us march to the tune of 'Produce or Perish,' and this has helped make of Americans a nation of high achievers," he told the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. "But with all of the benefits from continued economic...