Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House depicted by Fallows, errors, of which Congressional Liaison Frank Moore's have been "the most flagrant," are ignored out of a misguided sense of loyalty. "The goal was orderly performance. The virtues of an organization man-preserving order, preventing errors-were those Carter prized; and if an attempt to produce more imaginative policies, broader sources of information, even better speech drafts would violate these principles of order, it was not likely to prevail...
...Chinese Empire were the creation of some hack novelist, it might be dismissed as turgidly written and historically inaccurate-for it is both of those-but it is in fact the work of Victor Louis, 50, Moscow correspondent for the London Evening News, world traveler, bon vivant and a man widely reputed to have close connections with the Soviet KGB. The book thus can be interpreted as a Soviet government fantasy of China's eventual political and geographical disintegration-and a rationale for direct Soviet military intervention...
...Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters declined along with the nation's railways, Randolph's reputation was eclipsed by that of Martin Luther King Jr. and other black leaders. But he was still an insistent voice for moderation in the background. "Don't get emotional," cautioned the man who was always able to exert pressure without getting personally involved. Though he had often been critical of the AFL-CIO for its treatment of black members, he remained totally loyal to trade unionism as a salvation for social wrongs. "We never separated the liberation of the white workingman from...
After talking with Colombian authorities and Spradley in the Riohacha hospital, Chief Rogers became convinced that his man might have been seeking something other than drill bits on his ill-fated flight. Said he: "My impression is that it was a marijuana run, a drug deal gone bad. Spradley is not the smartest person in the world." So he decided to head home, leaving Everitt to pick up the pieces...
...Johns Jr., a vice president at Levi Straus & Co.: "As the baby-boom kids continue up the age ladder, either we will go with them or somebody else will." Thus Levi's has already sold some 15 million pairs of new, wider jeans "cut to fit a man's build with a little more room in the seat and thigh," as the ads say. The jeans have spawned a whole rack of clothes for the aging male body, ravaged by roast beef and gravity...