Word: neils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youth, it is now suffering the "baby-boom doldrums" of a generation confronting its inevitable mortality. Sociologists view the despair as something that logically follows a period of growth, the end of heady promise. But they worry about the effects of a prolonged malaise. Observes University of California Sociologist Neil Smelser: "There is abundant evidence that California is presently in a state of psychological depression because of the hollow notion that things are running out. Californians believe the best is behind them...
Chief Targets. TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil reports that House Speaker Tip O'Neill, convinced that no present Congressman is guilty of wrongdoing in the scandal, has told the House Ethics Committee "to leave no stone unturned." The committee's chief targets apparently are the former House members who were Park's beneficiaries. Moreover, Hanna's and Gallagher's tax returns are being examined by federal prosecutors, who hope to turn up violations that can be used to force the former legislators to open up about other Congressmen's dealings with Park...
Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd complains that the President's energy program "was not thought out." He also feels that Carter states lofty goals, then fails to follow through; that he is trying too much without knowing enough. As Byrd told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil, "He's getting good on-the-job training, but he has so little experience that there may not be time to learn enough...
...Neil O'Connor Greensboro...
...beautiful women, Humphrey Bogart's hat and Neil Simon's jokes," crowed squint-eyed Actor Peter Falk, he of the unspeakable raincoat (Columbo). "I'm not saying it's heaven. But it's at least across the hall." In this case, near-Valhalla is the forthcoming Bogart spoof, Cheap Detective, set in 1940s San Francisco. Written by Simon, it stars Falk along with Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing and Madeline Kahn. A natty Falk makes time with all six ladies while stumbling up against the Gestapo on a hunt...