Word: knighting
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...people of the free universe. From this day forward anyone and/or company of persons who misuses the natural environment or destroys same will suffer the penalty of death by the people of the free universe." The note was signed with fortuneteller tarot-card names, one name to a line: "Knight of Wands, Knight of Cups, Knight of Pentacles, Knight of Swords...
...Cover: Cartoon in watercolor with ink, by Mort Drucker, a longtime contributor to Mad magazine. For his first TIME cover, Drucker portrays the G.O.P.'s King Richard (1) with his trusty knight errant, Sir Spiro the Agnew (2). In New York, wearing Spiro's livery, James Buckley (3) joins Richard Ottinger (4) in assailing Charles Goodell (5), who already feels the weight of Sir Spiro's spiked mace. In the heartland of the realm, Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio (6) is threatened by the ax of Robert Taft Jr. (7), while in Tennessee, Albert Gore (8) aims...
Charging the State Department with sex discrimination, Frances Knight has hired lawyers and threatens to file a grievance against Secretary of State William Rogers, take her case before the Civil Service Commission, and demand formal hearings. Among other things, she points out that the head of the Visa Office, an equivalent agency in the same bureau of the State Department, has a foreign-service grade corresponding to the top civil-service rank. That official, of course...
...promotion fight is merely one more front in Passport Director Knight's longer, wider war. A Christmas card she mailed out last winter was a two-page tirade against her Foggy Bottom enemies. There has been no Secretary of State of whom she has thoroughly approved since John Foster Dulles, who picked her for her present post. "The State Department," she says, "is a cesspool of intrigue, political assassination and character assassination-it permeates the department...
Miles to Go. Few doubt that Frances Knight has been an aggressive and effective head at Passport, which under her tenure has had to expand its business more than 300% to meet the growing demands of international travel. But her efforts to extend her domain further sometimes bring on undiplomatic responses from her superiors...