Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Wednesday, when phones began ringing in the homes of startled reporters all over Washington. Administration officials told the newsmen that they had better get to the White House for an important announcement at 9. The callers gave no hint of what it would be about. Promptly on the hour, a grim-faced Jimmy Carter strode into a briefing room, climbed onto the podium and read a terse statement: "The continuing decline in the exchange value of the dollar threatens economic progress at home and abroad, and the success of our anti-inflation program ... It is now necessary...
...Saturday, Oct. 28, Blumenthal, Solomon, Miller, Anti-Inflation Czar Alfred Kahn and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze agreed on the main elements of the dollar-rescue plan during a four-hour meeting in Blumenthal's conference room. Most of the ideas were first voiced by Solomon, but they were scarcely new; non-Government people had been urging them for months. The group decided to get Carter's approval that night...
...meeting secretly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Just before 10 p.m., the economic advisers slipped into the White House by side doors. Solomon had excused himself from a dinner party at which he was the host by saying he had to meet some steel-industry officials. In a one-hour meeting with Carter in the basement map room, where they were least likely to be observed, they cemented the plan...
...season, when almost every prime-time show is labeled spectacular by the networks, one mini-series surely justifies the advance billing. That show is Roots: The Next Generations, ABC's sequel to the most popular TV entertainment of all time. When this 14-hour production airs over seven nights in early February, upwards of 100 million viewers may tune in to see if it is a worthy successor to the original Roots. ABC expects a huge audience but a tough one. Explains Network Senior Vice President Brandon Stoddard: "The real apprehension is not whether we're going...
...star had the aid of some top writers and supporting players, including Dick Shawn and Swoozie Kurtz. But the show flopped about aimlessly and folded last month after only three airings. Mary deserved to die. Its star cannot sing and cannot dance and certainly cannot carry a weekly hour of musical high jinks...