Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your Essay on how we pick our leaders [Dec. 15] reminds us of the useful function President Ford is serving. Just as Nixon caused us to look for honesty in government, Ford is prompting us to say, "Can't we do better than this...
Women call men for dates now-and fairly often share the expenses or pick up the tabs. At business lunches women used to resort to elaborate subterfuges-paying the check on the way to the ladies' room, or even slipping the money under the table to a male guest so that he could seem to pay the bill. Now men no longer seem mortified by having women pay. With a certain bonhomie, a man may demand of a woman: "Are you buying...
...people connected with the case have disappeared; some are known to have died violently. Oufkir reportedly committed suicide after the failure of an assassination plot against King Hassan in 1972. Two French operatives were murdered; a third, according to official reports, committed suicide as police moved in to pick him up for questioning. Villa Owner Boucheseiche, meanwhile, disappeared shortly after the murder and has never been seen again. "Too many people knew too much," one French participant told TIME. "The Moroccans and the SDECE have a long memory...
...largest French champagne makers lost money, and inventories of unsold bottles grew by more than 50%. Last September, for the first time in a generation, the price of newly harvested champagne grapes dropped by almost 28%. But recently, with the improvement in economic conditions, champagne sales have begun to pick up mildly in France, and some bottlers are even talking of an end-of-year buying splurge by holiday revelers at home and abroad. Failing that, all is still not lost. "After all," muses Jacques de Vriese, export director of the large Moët & Chandon company, "people will still...
Meanwhile, life inside the picket-surrounded Post building is becoming less hectic. The ninth-floor executive dining room is still serving as an all-night diner. Executives still have to pick their way through piles of dirty laundry to grab sleep, on cots set up in their offices, between an all-day shift behind the desk and an all-night shift putting out the paper. But only 100 employees are still living in the building, down from 200 at the beginning of the strike. All but one of the paper's nine presses have been repaired...