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...lines much more than it is the U.S. merchant fleet, whose share of world commerce has long been dwindling anyway. Not surprisingly, condemnation of Soviet tactics is widespread among shipowners. In the U.S., James Barker, chairman of the Moore-McCormack Lines and head of the National Maritime Council, is livid. "In effect, the Soviets are dumping by their price cutting, while there is no serious coordinated policy in Washington," he charges. Managing Director Carl-Thomas Hubrich of the Deutsche Afrika-Linien in Hamburg laments: "We're still there, but our backs are to the wall...
Cleary, meanwhile, was livid. He couldn't believe that two newspapers could be so insensitive. He boycotted talking to the Globe for a year and to The Crimson apparently forever...
...pissing contest" and shy away from criticizing Frank on the record. When asked if City Hall had a negative reaction to Frank's opposition to the charter package, George K. Reagen, White's press secretary, said "We really had none." Most city Hall observers thought the White administration was livid. Alvin Levin, a member of the liberal activist group, Citizens for Participation in Political Action, which opposed Frank on several major issues including last year's regional primary bill, says, "I have a terrible memory" when asked to cite issues over which they have differed...
...appreciate a good hurricane, and they aren't likely to take time out to read about even the biggest one of all. Which is, of course, their loss. A Wind to Shake the World is a fine book, a wonderful source of stories to sit around and tell when livid storm clouds come steaming across the horizon and force the conversation indoors. For those who give it a try, the Big Wind will provide more than a few hours of powerful entertainment...
...politician. He's...he's..." Silence on the other end of the phone for a moment. "He's Sam Huntington! He's Pat Moynihan!" Now Scheer, who as an Institute of Politics guest at Harvard led the famous demonstration which kept Robert MacNamara captive for hours, is livid. The phone falls. "You don't believe me? Read the interview again. He's a return to the politics of the fifties, the paranoia of the Cold War, enemies everywhere, too much dissent. I know he believes that there's too much dissent. Read...