Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read your story about homesteading in Oklahoma, where prospective farmers will receive ten acres and a chain saw [Jan. 17]. Since we are farmers ourselves, we would like to tell you what would be involved in making a $7,000 profit per family from fruit produced on ten acres...
...your article regarding the attempt of the National Council of Churches to influence the investment procedures of its member denominations according to certain moral and religious criteria [Jan. 17], you quite rightly point out the immense difficulties in evaluating the morals of a corporate entity. Though the point is well taken, it produces, if carried to extremes, complete withdrawal from attempts to influence society. Those who disdain action until they are 100% certain of the "purity" of the cause and the results of their action are those who will watch the suffering and feel satisfied that they had no part...
...Jan. 17 Harris poll showed Muskie tied with Nixon in popularity; both got 42%. In that Harris survey, George Wallace scored 11%. Last week, in a Gallup poll of Democratic voters, results for the first time since the Chappaquiddick episode showed that Muskie was the popular choice over Ted Kennedy 32% to 27%. Another Gallup poll, excluding Kennedy, gave Muskie 39% to Hubert Humphrey...
...Retiring Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant [Jan. 10] deserves an award of sorts for his incredible string of questionable judgments and false assumptions. His commendable lauding of Beverly Sills cannot begin to offset the remarkable prediction of future obscurity for Stravinsky and the naming of Richard Strauss as "greatest composer of the 20th century...
...Brussels' Palais d'Egmont to sign a Treaty of Accession to the European Common Market, thus officially marking the end of 18 months of tough negotiations. The occasion, the next-to-last formal step before the four nations become full members of the Common Market next Jan. 1-if all goes according to schedule-was being carried live on Eurovision. Then, just as Heath walked through the Palais doors, a blonde woman stepped out of a group of photographers and threw a canister of black printing ink in his face...