Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that time, congressmen will surely take the offensive against the Pentagon's economy drive. New Jersey's 17-member delegation will challenge the Pentagon's estimate of the $16 million in savings that could be made by shifting Dix's basic training function to Fort Jackson, S.C. "We've certainly not thrown in the towel," says Democratic Senator Harrison Williams. "In the past when attempts were made to transfer Dix's training function somewhere else, a united New Jersey delegation has worked wonders." Ironically, many of the legislators who oppose the Pentagon...
...only" 9%. When that news reached Wall Street, stocks surged in their best one-day rally in five months. In Washington, the State Department called the rise "untimely and unjustified," and let it go at that. About the only Washington official to speak out strongly was Senator Henry Jackson. Besides showing OPEC's "greed," he said, the price boost reflected "a punitive doctrine" by Arab oil states eager to condemn the U.S. for acting as midwife to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty...
...pitching may prove the difference. John Candelaria leads a decent bunch of starters, while Kent Tekulve, Enrique Romo and Grant Jackson comprise the best bullpen in the league...
...Reggie Jackson, 32, outfielder, New York Yankees. The baseball millionaire chooses to invest in "tangibles," including a Volkswagen dealership in Canoga Park, Calif., a condominium project in Reno, a twin-engine Beechcraft plane, and five antique cars. Jackson advises friends: "Start building a cash reserve. And then buy things, things you can touch...
...innovative Director Robert Altman. Filming in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., is Altman's Health, all about a leadership power struggle at a national health-food promotion convention between a vigorous virgin of 83 and a younger opponent. Lauren Bacall, of all sexies, is the maiden, and Glenda Jackson her antagonist; Carol Burnett gets involved as a White House aide dispatched to the convention mainly to get her out of Washington. On the set, there is no concern about life enervating art. Altman stores up energy by gobbling yogurt, Burnett is a yogist, and Bacall goes through a daily dozen...