Word: liaisoning
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After the 1970 season, at the request of the players, the Athletic Department undertook an evaluation of the soccer program and in particular the coaching situation. One of the products of the investigation was the decision to hire an assistant coach to aid Munro and act as a liaison between the players and the head coach...
Americans have seen Chou most often as the regime's suave spokesman and negotiator. He was an instant hit with the American liaison team that went to Yenan in 1944 to coordinate war efforts against the Japanese. One member of the team, John Emerson, recalls that Chou was a charming regular at the ersatz Saturday-night dances. "The orchestra was a strange combination of a violin and Chinese instruments, and the senior officials would shuffle around with their wives on a makeshift dance floor...
...sense, Ginzburg was a man ahead of the legal times. Eros, his slick, expensively produced "quarterly on the joys of love," was mildly startling in the early '60s, as was its companion biweekly "newsletter of love," Liaison, and a mail-order volume called The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. The most controversial display in Eros, for example, was a series of color pictures of a black man and a white woman embracing in the nude. The post office, after receiving 35,000 complaints, charged Ginzburg with violating an 1872 law prohibiting the mailing of obscene material...
Some of the more mature passengers also managed to swing, though less overtly. A European blonde in her mid-50s cuddled quietly with five different men on the first five days at sea. A spinster from North America discreetly resumed a four-year-old liaison with a cabin boy. "He might not be an officer," explained one of her friends, "but he is an intelligent cabin boy. And very kind." A few other matrons found comfort with the gaggle of gigolos aboard. Gay liberation was also evident. Punned one ship's officer: "We are carrying both lifeboats and fairies...
...replace Peterson as international economic adviser the President chose Peter Flanigan, 48, a Princeton-educated former Wall Street investment banker who has been a high-level Mister Fix-It-the chief White House liaison man with business leaders and Wall Street. Flanigan will give up his seat on the Cost of Living Council and most other jobs concerning the domestic economy. That will undoubtedly please Ralph Nader, with whom Flanigan has clashed repeatedly. Besides overseeing the comprehensive trade policy drafted by Peterson, which could well lead to a "Nixon Round" of tariff-cutting negotiations (TIME, Jan. 24), Flanigan will continue...