Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspaperman and a humorist for the Saturday Evening Post, Johnson wrote nearly 100 screenplays in 35 years, including such classics as The Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Three Faces of Eve. A wisecracker, he quipped after two divorces: "I always insist on custody of the mother...
...LAKE LEAK. Plutonium from improperly handled wastes of the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant near Broomfield, Colo., has leaked into the town's Great Western Reservoir. Federal officials insist that the plutonium, one of the most lethal of all nuclear products, is harmless as long as it stays on the bottom of the 40-acre reservoir. But residents of Broomfield-aware that even the tiniest amounts of plutonium in the body can cause cancer-are unconvinced. They have asked the Federal Government for the $30 million the town will have to spend to create a new water supply. Meanwhile...
Public Pressure. Embarrassed Arizonans insist that the state's criminals are a minority (a truism anywhere) and that a genuine housecleaning has begun. "Two years ago," says tough Attorney General Babbitt, "I walked into this office to find that it carried no criminal jurisdiction. It was that bad." He finally obtained authority from the legislature to set up a statewide grand jury and funding for a prosecution effort. Criminal laws are being strengthened, and the legislature is expected to approve a bill outlawing the practice of investing proceeds from the rackets in legitimate businesses. Public pressure is mounting...
Carter's clarifying statement that in a settlement Israel should withdraw to the 1967 borders with only "minor alterations" (a favorite Arab code word) of the frontiers was almost more than Cairo had dared hope for. Although the Egyptians insist upon regaining all of Sinai, they believe that some modifications along the border between the West Bank and Israel are necessary where villages were divided by the 1949 armistice lines...
...fairly driven people. I'm a compulsive worker." Mackin worked her way from,her home-town Baltimore News American to become in 1972 the first woman network television floor reporter at a national political convention. Though some viewers find her taut and aloof on-camera, off-camera acquaintances insist she is quite the opposite. "I have a small circle of friends," she says, "who don't mind if I come late to dinner...