Word: misters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
There were certainly no chickens in the ring. Napoles, who is called "Man-tequilla" because his style is "smooth as butter," owns the best knockout record (47 in 69 bouts) in welterweight history. He and Lewis shared the bill with World Bantamweight Champion Rubén ("Mister K.O.") Olivares and Jesús ("Little Poison") Pimentel, who staged a fast and furious slugfest before Olivares beat Pimentel into submission in the tenth round, scoring his 63rd knockout in 69 fights. Both men are typical of the host of hungry little fighters, most of them from Latin America and Asia...
Cardboard Steel. Panel Chairman Fred Rogers, producer of one of television's leading children's programs, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, says: "Commercials stress that in order to play you need a toy, that your mental resources are not enough." Another panelist, Mrs. Joan Ganz Cooney, creator of Sesame Street, worries about the distortions in children's ads. "The product," she notes, "looks attractive on the screen because the cardboard materials are shiny and made to look like steel...
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...about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas." Albert Finney, as Scrooge, knows how to act cold, and he knows how to sound cold. His performance is really remarkable, though after all he has dialogue that even Mister Magoo can make effective. The problems with his Scrooge are not exactly his fault: in the first place he doesn't look like Scrooge. I've always pictured Scrooge as a shriveled up old man with small beady eyes and thin, bloodless lips, sort of like a nun who taught...