Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such large-scale maneuvers, the real war over smoking is being fought in countless small skirmishes between recalcitrant puffers and touchy nonpuffers. The first escalation is verbal. Nonsmokers, who used to say mildly, "Would you mind not smoking?" have moved up to billingsgate. A woman trying to ban all smoking from airlines remarked, "I don't see why the nonsmokers should have their lungs raped." Action is sometimes not far behind. At a reception in the Minnesota Governor's mansion, a smoker who was asked to put out his cigarette cheerfully agreed, then made the mistake...
...Miller when the phone call came: the President urgently wanted to see him at the White House Only four hours remained until Jimmy Carter was to deliver his televised speech on inflation, and as Blumenthal was driven across town, he wondered if the President had any additional changes in mind. For months Blumenthal, the Administration's bridge to the business community and chief inflation fighter had advocated a tougher program to hold down prices and wages. So he had been shocked only one week earlier when Carter had told him he wanted to appoint Robert Strauss-no friend...
...Humbled, mind you, not humiliated. Harvard turned in a respectable performance, but any chances they had for an upset were smothered by the brilliant play of Red goalie John Griffin. Griffin allowed just five goals in three quarters of action, making Cornell's cage seem virtually impenetrable as he repelled--among other volleys--four point-blank shots from Faught, Bill Forbush and Martin (twice...
...share of the credit must go to the show, one of those sure-fire hits in high-school, college and amateur theaters. An old-fashioned revival long before Nanette made them commonplace, the already sumptuously scored Anything Goes was packed with still more memorable melodies from Cole Porter's mind-boggling output. Now, in one show, we have the title song, "You're the Top," "It's DeLovely," "Friendship," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "Blow, Gabriel, Blow," "Take Me Back to Manhattan," and lesser known though equally delightful gems like, "Let's Misbehave," and "Heaven Hop." Whew. This...
Before yesterday morning, an MIT crew which had been the laughing stock of the scummy Charles last year loomed as a question mark in the mind of Radcliffe lightweight crew coach Peter Huntsman, who had heard reports they were vastly improved...