Word: jacke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bends elbows with their chiefs at the Metropolitan Club and the Greenbrier and the Business Roundtable. Yes, says Wriston, business should be strong both in 1978 and 1979, which is as far as anybody can foresee. But he is bedeviled by many questions about modern America, including who killed Jack Armstrong and whether Abe Lincoln could be elected today and what's doing with the Laffer Curve. Let Wriston explain three of the problems that he senses worry the nation...
Success is under suspicion, heroes are under attack. "I claim that Jack Armstrong, the all-American boy, died a long time ago," Wriston continues. "And today, Abe Lincoln could never be nominated. Abe Lincoln, the fellow who did not show up at his own wedding. Abe Lincoln, who, after Ann Rutledge died, was certifiably crazy and was found wandering in the woods, mumbling to himself. Can you imagine what a great story that would have made on Channel 7? The sad fact is that we are scrutinizing our leaders and our institutions in the kind of close detail that...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Jack Haley Jr., 44, movie producer (That's Entertainment) and television executive; from Liza Minnelli, 32, explosive Broadway entertainer (The Act) and film actress (Cabaret, The Sterile Cuckoo); after 3½ years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Americans make up ground on their foreign counterparts with eagerness for a newly found game. Oakland Stompers Assistant Coach Jack Hyde, an Englishman, admires the enthusiasm of Americans and their willingness to learn. "They go out and give you a 100% effort for the full 90 minutes...
Gelsey marched on Dec. 29, 1952, in a Bethlehem, Pa., hospital. Her father Jack was a playwright who had scored handsomely as adapter of Tobacco Road for Broadway; her mother Nancy, a onetime actress, had retired from the stage to become Jack's fifth wife. A sister, Johnna, was nearly four when Gelsey was born; she has a brother, Marshall, 16 months younger...