Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allen Drury's A God Against the Gods, the latest offering from the nation's most annoyingly prolific political writer, does not change this gloomy picture. Drury, who struck gold in 1960 with Advise and Consent, a superbly-written Pulitzer Prizewinner about the scandals surrounding a would-be Secretary of State, has never been one to tinker with a good thing. Shrewdly noting that his first book spent two highly profitable years on the New York Times Best Seller List, he spent the next 15 years churning out a seemingly endless series of high-priced sequels, which lacking better titles...
...think it is possible that the quality of life could improve with the decrease in the number of people in this nation, but not without a major change in attitudes. When the economy fails and the population declines, the educational authorities do not improve the student-teacher ratio. Instead, they close down schools, fire teachers or subject them to impossible assignments, while the talents of new teachers go wasted...
That had to be taken seriously. Born in Indiana as Ernest McGee, Khaalis, 54, was discharged from the Army in World War II on grounds of mental instability. While working as a jazz drummer in New York City, he switched from Roman Catholicism to the Nation of Islam and rose to a trusted position before he broke with the Black Muslims in 1958. In the mid-1960s he formed his own group, the Hanafi. In 1968, he was arrested for trying to extort money from a bank, but charges were dismissed after he was found to be mentally disturbed...
TIME correspondents around the nation turned up more indications that for the time being, at least, Americans are taken with Carter's downhome, cardigan style. Even the West, which went overwhelmingly for Ford last November, is now warming to the President. Says Karen Stone, a housewife active in Democratic Party politics in Pacific Palisades, Calif: "There is something I'm beginning to like about Carter. The low-keyed, anti-folderol approach. I still mistrust his Baptist fundamentalist upbringing and the whole thing about his being a Southerner. But I must admit the accent is bothering me less than...
Along with Holbrook, Whitmore pioneered the concept with a flawless imitation of the ropetwirling political satirist Will Rogers, but he has since moved from delivering the finely honed barbs of the nation's greatest "ridiculer" of Presidents to actually portraying Presidents themselves. He snared an Oscar nomination for a representation of Harry S. Truman that made its way successfully from stage to screen to tube under the fiery title Give 'Em Hell, Harry...