Word: partner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow or Washington, using the so-called back channel. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, however, has pledged that Warnke will conduct "real negotiations" on disarmament. Warnke's strength is the fact that he is so solidly plugged into the Washington power structure. He is now a senior partner in Clark Clifford's law office, and spent 18 years with the late Dean Acheson's firm. Warnke, moreover, has kept his close personal relations with Iwo men he previously worked with in the Pentagon and who now occupy top national security posts: Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown...
...Jack Watson Jr., 38, assistant for intragovernmental relations and Cabinet secretary. A law partner of Carter's close friend Charles Kirbo, he directed the transition staff in Washington, which prepared voluminous background files on proposed policies and personnel for the Administration...
...imagined a Philip Marlowe type named Ira Wells (Art Carney), who has outlived his day. He is discovered existing in a rented room on Social Security, watching old movies on TV while his attempt at an autobiography languishes in the typewriter, just one paragraph written. Then his old partner (played by Howard Duff, who was Sam Spade on the radio in the old days) arrives gut-shot at his door, dies in his arms, and Wells takes over the case his friend was working on. On its face, it is not much: Duff had been trying to recover a kidnaped...
Mixed drinks cost $2 apiece and cans of beer were $1.50, but many of the dancers seemed to have forgotten their January budgets. One man held a Budweiser in one hand and twirled his partner over his shoulders with the other, pouring part of the beer on the bare feet of an oblivious woman in white Levi corduroys dancing next...
...return phone calls, will nonetheless handle congressional relations. Jack Watson, 38, a former Marine who graduated from Harvard Law School and later helped Carter as governor, will direct relations between the White House and the Cabinet. Campaign Treasurer Robert Lipshutz will take over as White House counsel. A senior partner in a successful Atlanta law firm, Lipshutz has advised Carter for almost ten years and, at 55, is the grand old man of the staff...