Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Absolutely. Roosevelt kept businessmen around him like Frank Knox and Jesse Jones. Truman followed the same model. Who would be like that on the scene today? I'll be very blunt: Henry Ford II. He knows how to handle labor.
Still unknown was the fate of the cult's flamboyant founder, Jim Jones, 47. A white civil rights activist and Marxist, he started building a largely black congregation in the late 1960s. A few years later, he ruled a string of communes from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Rigidly disciplined...
Jones quit and led the exodus to Guyana after New West magazine last year ran an expose of concentration camp conditions within the communes. According to reports, members were punished for smoking, fraternizing with outsiders or acting like "male chauvinist pigs." They were paddled as many as 100 times by...
Running the offenses are young quarterbacks who are not afraid of carrying the ball themselves. The league that once considered Fran Tarkenton a heretic for deserting his protective pocket of blockers now boasts quarterbacks who routinely gallop upfield. New England's Steve Grogan fancies the end run; Baltimore'...
The dividend cut shocked Wall Street traders, who apparently saw it as a harbinger of many more to come. Stock prices, which had registered their sharpest one-day run-up ever (35 points) during the initial euphoria over the dollar-rescue program, fell back heavily; last Tuesday the Dow Jones...