Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hugh Sidey must be a classical playwright or a modern anthropologist or both. Neither Shakespeare nor Robert Ardrey could have done a better job depicting the court of Gerald...
...fact is that New York's "scare tactics" had some effect. A nationwide publicity blitz orchestrated by New York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey turned the country at least part way around on the issue. New Yorkers hammered away at the theme that if the city fell into default, others would soon accompany it. Yonkers, N.Y., teetered on the brink of default last week, only to be rescued at the last moment by a $25 million infusion of bank loans and state aid. Massachusetts, too, seemed headed for default until it managed to balance its $3 billion budget...
...Died. Hugh Auchincloss Brown, 96, engineer who believed that vast polar icecaps would wipe out civilization in this century; in New York City. Brown, author of Cataclysms of the Earth (1967), predicted that the accumulation of ice at the Antarctic would upset the planet's equilibrium and cause it to flip, reversing the North and South Poles. If the catastrophe comes to pass, New York, according to Brown, will be buried under 13 miles of water...
...back: a reduction of almost 36,000 public jobs, a freeze on wage increases and new construction, a boost in the transit fare to the highest in the nation (50?). Ford's "bumper-sticker philosophy," said Beame, had "triggered hatred, disunity and confusion." New York Governor Hugh Carey lobbied his former colleagues in Congress, then at the end of the week he headed for the West Coast to try to convince people that their fate was entwined with New York City's. Joining the fight, Terence Cardinal Cooke of the New York Archdiocese declared that the human needs...
...General Assembly. Mayor Abraham Beame, who had offered to give Sadat the key to the city, withdrew the invitation when he realized that many of New York's 2.4 million Jews might regard any welcome as bad taste-and worse politics. The insult was compounded by Governor Hugh Carey, who also declined to see Sadat. Then when he arrived at the U.N., he was greeted by cries of "Down with Sadat! Long live Palestine!" from Palestinian sympathizers on Dag Hammarskjold Plaza...