Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Machievelli once wrote that "one must either pet men or exterminate them." Harvard's Government Department is inclining towards the latter course of action...
Heedless of warnings from the bench, Fromme has already digressed into some of her pet causes, such as the fate of California's redwoods, because, she argues, "the defendant's state of mind" at the time of the Ford incident "may be directly concerned with such social matters." But Judge MacBride has ruled that he will block any testimony and evidence that he thinks is irrelevant to the case. Squeaky has already demonstrated, however, that she is inclined to say whatever she likes. On one occasion, she even turned on the judge, an avid duck hunter, and declared...
...cover story that my subject never even read," smiled TIME Senior Writer Michael Demarest. His cover subject happened to be a young beagle. Still, Demarest's study of "The American Pet" (TIME, Dec. 23) earned him a Penney-Missouri Award this month from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Demarest joins more than a score of others who have been recognized so far this year for work appearing in TIME. Among the most recent honors...
...should play second fiddle to nobody. After a quick but disastrous experience as an opening act for Chicago, Springsteen appeared only as a headline attraction. That meant fewer bookings. There was also little to be done about the narrowing future of Bruce's recording career. Regarded as a pet of banished Columbia Records President Clive Davis, Springsteen was ignored by the executives who took over from Davis. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle was not so much distributed as dumped...
...Roosevelt never breakfasted on grilled millionaire, America's class structure wasn't significantly changed during his tenure either. But Mora gives his audience a glimpse of the millions who gained employment through F.D.R.'s pet programs, the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration. We see a policeman sternly advising an itinerant freight train rider to "Return where you came from and collect relief and find a government...