Word: namely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took over Indiana University's Bloomington campus, Tyrrell, then a graduate student, launched a paper called the Alternative ("to mainstream liberalism and the radical movement"). With a burgeoning list of contributors that included William F. Buckley Jr., and Irving Kristol, the iconoclastic monthly went national in 1970, changed its name to the American Spectator, acquired 22,000 subscribers and earned a reputation among intellectuals for good writing and biting humor. In his latest book, Public Nuisances, a collection of his editorials, Tyrrell fulminates against such targets as Jimmy Carter
...Richard A. Viguerie, 45, a prime mover of neoconservatism, has rediscovered an old means of communication to further his causes: direct mail. Viguerie circumvents the media with his two IBM computers and a treasure of mailing lists, including a 5,000-name "hit list" that can produce, almost overnight, $115,000 in contributions for conservative causes. He can flood a Senator, Representative or state Governor with 50,000 letters in a single delivery. Viguerie helped lead the heated battle against the Panama Canal Treaties, anathema to many middle-of-the-roaders?and lost narrowly. Now he is cranking...
That empire grew from a modest beginning. When he seized power in 1933, Tacho's father, Anastasio Somoza García, had only a near bankrupt coffee farm to his name. Little by little, he added to his holdings. If he saw a plantation he admired, for example, Somoza García made its owner an offer he dared not refuse, usually about half the property's real value. Often as not, the owner presented the land as a gift. By the time of his assassination in 1956, Somoza García was worth about $150 million...
...would change names almost as often as his socks. The original Nathan Birnbaum became Harry Pierce, who became Willy Williams, who became Willie Delight. Willie Delight? "Yah," says George. "There was a guy by that name who had 2,000 cards printed up that said, 'Willie Delight, in Vaudeville.' But then he went into some other business, and I bought the cards for a dollar. When they were used up, I changed my name again." He was George Burns when he met and, in 1926, married Gracie Allen, an Irish Catholic comedienne from San Francisco...
...artist whose originality and stunning gifts have secured a small loyal audience. An antipodean J.D. Salinger, she avoids interviews, and has even been known to flee a face-to-face meeting with her own publisher. In ad dition she has the odd distinction of having written under her real name while living as Janet Clutha, a name taken from New Zealand's Clutha River...