Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget by $2.8 billion. Among Brown's proposals: buying 72 rather than 108 F-15 fighters, building five instead of eight B-l bombers, and slowing production of the latest Minuteman III missile and development of still another intercontinental missile known as the MX. Brown was working 14-hour days and had no intention of slackening the pace in the near future...
...primarily domestic bent who in the past year had barnstormed the American heartland aboard a chartered commercial jet nicknamed Minnesota Fritz. Mondale successfully managed the transition to Air Force Two and international relations, thanks in part to intensive homework (during Inauguration week, he put himself through a 30-hour crash course). He was also helped by his self-deprecating good humor. "Where's the bed?" he exclaimed with a look of mock desperation on his face as he padded down the aisle in tennis shoes. "Jerry Ford promised me there was a bed somewhere on this thing." (In fact...
...Rome, Mondale met for an hour with Pope Paul VI, who praised Carter's hopes to halt the global arms race. The Vice President gave the Pope a presidential Inaugural medal, adding, "I would have liked to give you a copy of the Inauguration speech, signed by President Carter, but my efficient staff left it on the plane." To which the Pope replied benevolently, "You have a very young staff. I am astonished...
...Graham can be rough on business types. "She's very difficult to get along with, especially if you have to work closely with her," says one former Graham lieutenant. "She's mercurial, impulsive. I've seen tears. She blows up and then apologizes half an hour later...
...finest hour, of course, was Watergate, which it now finds hard to live up to. Watergate made folk heroes and millionaires out of Woodward and Bernstein, sent up Bradlee's ego when he saw Jason Robards' fine film portrayal of him in All the President's Men, and in the face of economic and political threats to the paper, proved Publisher Katharine Graham's courage. Hard to top all that-last year's exposure of Congressman Wayne Hays and his dolly seems much less momentous. Cartoonist Herblock is bereft without Nixon to kick around...