Word: lobbyist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capable of overcoming deprivation and performing a useful role in society. Then. too. the President's pals, like himself, are mostly upper-middle-class Americans who have achieved mightily. His closest golfing companions are Rodney Markley, a vice president of Ford Motor Co., and William G. Whyte, chief lobbyist for U.S. Steel Corp. Last week, in an admission that mildly embarrassed the President, Whyte said that his company had paid for five of Ford's golfing trips to New Jersey and Florida between 1964 and 1973 when he was a Congressman...
Late last year, former Lockheed Lobbyist Ernest Hauser, the man who first brought Prince Bernhard's name into the Lockheed scandals, told Senate investigators that Strauss and the C.S.U. had received at least $10 million for West Germany's purchase of 900 F-104 Starfighters in 1961. The party and its leader denied the allegations, and Strauss filed a slander suit against Hauser. The quarrel ended what was left of a longstanding friendship that went back to Mauser's days as a U.S. Army intelligence officer during the postwar occupation of Germany. Hauser had helped Strauss...
...Japan. Right-wing Lobbyist Yoshio Kodama, a powerful operator at many levels of government and business, was indicted last week on charges of having established a Hong Kong "cover" company to launder illegal funds from Lockheed. Although 19 other top political and business figures, including former Premier Kakuei Tanaka, have been arrested on bribetaking charges in Japan, Kodama has so far avoided arrest on grounds of illness...
Whether Wilkins retires at year's end or next July, the search for his successor is still on. Among the leading candidates: Memphis Lawyer Benjamin Hooks, 51, the only black member of the Federal Communications Commission; Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, 36; N.A.A.C.P. Lobbyist Clarence Mitchell, 65, sometimes described as "the 101st Senator"; N.A.A.C.P. Official Gloster Current, 63, who now handles many of the organization's administrative details; and Gustav Heningburg, 46, director of the Newark Urban Coalition...
...film releases last year totaled 333. More than two-thirds of these were "pinkies," as Japanese call their mass-produced pornos−the kind that Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno starred in until he died a kamikaze's flaming death crashing a Piper Cherokee onto the home of Lockheed Lobbyist Yoshio Kodama (TIME April 5). Box office receipts were deceptively high, totaling $390 million. But more than half the revenue came from a succession of smash-hit imports: Earthquake (which reminded Japanese of their own killer quake of 1923), Towering Inferno, Emmanuelle and Jaws...