Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Already, the 28 U.S. Attorneys' offices in the South are manned by 250 lawyers. Asked by Senator Jacob Javits how Southern blacks could feel free to complain about any noncompliance with the law without fear of reprisals in their communities, Mitchell took a tough, uncompromising stance. "If there is any question of retaliation," he vowed, "we will take the swiftest and most drastic action possible under...
Skeptical Children. To Americans, the atmosphere might suggest a mixture of Tanglewood and a tennis camp. But evidence of the modern U.S. is rare at Donoratico. One wonders if troubled America is becoming remote to comfortable Europeans. Senator Jacob Javits recently criticized some European leaders for thinking small. Europeans remember that the U.S. fell out with De Gaulle because he insisted on thinking big. Europeans have also watched, first critically and now with compassion, the consequences for the U.S. of thinking big in Asia...
...Delaware's William V. Roth Jr., 49, once head of the state's G.O.P. organization, is regarded as certain to defeat state legislator Jacob Zimmerman for the seat being vacated by Republican John J. Williams...
...some roots in the basic myths of the twin culture heroes who father new tribes, cities and even heavenly bodies. Romulus and Remus, or Castor and Pollux come first to mind. But in the case of Bear and Black Bear, Blum's biblical symbolism suggests Esau and Jacob. To this are added a dash of psychedelics and some excellent literary effects. In the early pages, the prose has a deadly metallic precision. When Home goes to Russia, Blum changes his style to a controlled lyricism that quietly points toward a meaning: man can surmount such obscenities as technological soul...
Second-echelon aides had more specific suggestions. Treasury Under Secretary Paul Volcker suggested a voluntary wage-price freeze. Treasury Under Secretary Charls Walker*backed Senator Jacob Javits' original plan to have some group identify and spotlight major inflationary wage-and-price hikes before they take place, but did not feel it was a job for the CEA. Trying to reconcile all this, Speechwriter William Safire wrote ten drafts before a reluctant consensus was reached...