Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabians -walk out briskly, followed by Shetland ponies and mules. Hitched to faithfully copied new versions of Conestogas and prairie schooners, the animals are pointed toward Petersburg, Mich., some 20 miles southeast. Fringe-topped surreys and jerry-built vehicles of varying durability fill out the party. The passengers are instant minor celebrities in each small town they pass. Villagers look, wave, offer plates of homemade cookies and other food, and sometimes get bitten by the bug and join up. The historic sort of leisure exerts a unique pull on the mind. Wagonmaster Keith Kreykes, 52, a cook, in the course...
...armor-plated Cadillac goes with the job, and instant call on a 707 or Learjet. The salary is $60,000. The executive suite is the grandest in Washington, with half a museum's worth of Early American furniture, sweeping views from a vast eighth-floor terrace, and a chamber that can take 200 for sitdown dinner. It is not the pay and the perks, however, which have hopeful Democrats lining up two abreast to be Henry Kissinger's successor. The office of U.S. Secretary of State is probably the most powerful appointive office in the world. And there...
...this country I find we have a maddening tendency to back our candidates into corners, then demand that they produce instant remedies from either a "liberal" or "conservative" bag of tricks...
...semanticist with an excellent reputation among academics, Hayakawa was approaching retirement age in 1968 when he was made acting president of San Francisco State College. The school had been sundered by violent demonstrations. Short, normally mild of mien and sporting a tam-o'-shanter, Hayakawa became an instant celebrity when he summoned riot police to the campus and suppressed the radical uprising. At one point the scholar personally ripped the wires from the protesters' public address system in mid-diatribe. Today he says: "I had to become an effective college president in five minutes. I'm still...
...believe in an instant presidency...