Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year career with Time Inc. has included posts as TIME'S associate publisher and advertising sales director, as well as the one he will continue to hold as a vice president of the company. A man of modesty and personal warmth who hastens to introduce himself as Jack and talks quietly of doing "the job at hand," Meyers has humanitarian concerns beyond the magazine; among other commitments, he serves as a member of the national board of the Foundation for Children with Learning Disabilities...
Every month, Grandfather Jack, 68, and Grandmother Claire, 66, receive two checks in the mail. Jack's green Social Security check is for $195. He also gets a gold Supplemental Security Income check of $37.28 (of which $34.48 comes from Massachusetts, $2.80 from HEW). Based on her late husband's earnings, Claire's Social Security check is for $177, and her Supplemental Security check is for $55.28 (of which HEW contributes $20.80). The two grandparents get a chance to eat out at meal sites run by a state-administered program set up under HEW'S Older...
...school has produced public servants like Henry Stimson and George Bush. Yale, the Los Angeles Times and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are all headed by Andover graduates. Other alumni include the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Tarzan Creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, Actor Jack Lemmon. Humphrey Bogart never got his diploma; he was kicked out in 1918 for "incontrollably high spirits...
...were artisans like any other, bronze busts of earlier Electors, paintings of Adam and Eve, and a portrait of Martin Luther get no greater pride of place than the products of other craftsmen-a drinking vessel in the shape of an ostrich, an astronomical clock, a carpenter's jack plane or an ornate traveling tool...
...Jack Carlson, chief economist of the National Chamber of Commerce and a former top OMB official, says: "The President needs a change at OMB, a man who can stand toe-to-toe with someone like Labor Secretary Ray Marshall or Defense Secretary Harold Brown and tell him to drop programs." Carlson's glum conclusion: "There will be no serious budget cutting with Mclntyre there...