Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices also stay fixed?a condition that few union leaders believe will prevail. "When you've got a loophole as large as in fruits and vegetables, you have no price controls," says Sigmund Arywitz, executive director of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. "Food, the consumer's biggest item, has no ceiling." In addition, they point out, there are no restraints on taxes or the price of credit. Each of these contributes mightily to the cost of living, yet automatic escalators in labor contracts to compensate for hikes in the cost of living index have been specifically denied during...
They also released government documents which, according to Minh's supporters, showed how the election was being rigged. The main item was a 17-page memo to province chiefs; among other things, it told how to fix ballot cards to enable Thieu partisans to vote twice and how to discourage Thieu opponents by finding "a scar"-Vietnamese parlance for a past crime or anything else that might make a man vulnerable to blackmail...
When Novelist Gwen Davis chose to describe a character in The Pretenders by means of a TIME Milestones item, she was following what has become a kind of minor tradition: the use of TIME's name or style to make a fictional point. Authors of movies, plays and novels have worked TIME stories into their plots to show, for instance, that a character has arrived. That ploy was used in the Broadway comedy Any Wednesday and in the current motion picture Who Is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those to things about me? The device is neither...
...embassy, appalled at the prospect, is putting heavy pressure on him to stay in the race. As a measure of U.S. concern, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker arrives in Washington this week for consultations at the White House, and it is safe to assume that the situation will be a major item on the agenda. The signs are that, at least for the time being, Minh will stay. Says his running mate, Saigon Physician Ho Van ("Little") Minh, 35, who is no kin: "Ky's elimination is an important factor for us, but not the decisive factor. We are ready...
...Mary watched Pound making poetry: "His silence was suspense, a joyous sense of expectation, until he broke into a kind of chant that sometimes went on for hours." Pound was often severe with Mary. When she was still quite small, he drafted an elaborate table of "Laws for Maria." Item: "If she suffers, it is her own fault for not understanding the universe." But on the whole, he was a really nice if distant dad. He bought the child a small flock of sheep, and became her silent partner in a tiny bee-raising business; many of these episodes, mentioned...