Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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User-fee advocates have made their point. Once user-fees becomes a part of library fiscal support, the municipal politician will have a field day. He will demand more support from this direction and provide less support from tax monies. The argument of practicality will have won over the fundamental principles of the democratic tradition of free access to information-knowledge. As a substitute, there will be a politician deciding who is worthy or capable of using these tax supported and user-fee supported facilities. The real and only challenge is to maks the library and its services an even...
...small mouth that gives him a puckish look, even though, at 59, his hair is thinning and his chin has doubled. His round brown eyes and arched eyebrows tend to make him look perpetually surprised. But Helms knows exactly how to behave. "I'm a lousy politician," he says, in his best humble-pie manner, "and a terrible speaker...
...always deferential, always courtly, touching in his folksy way on the mess the country is in. He listened to the familiar urgings to keep up the good fight. A thin film of sweat covered his face, a reminder of Helms' intensity; he is not a gregarious, double-handshake politician who thrusts himself at crowds...
...that so often offends Congress. Says one Capitol Hill aide: "It's awfully nice not to have a Secretary of Defense who puffs on a pipe and talks down at you from an intellectual perch." A senior military official at the Pentagon agrees: "Weinberger is the first good politician we have had on the third floor for quite a while...
DIED. William Henry Vanderbilt, 79, farmer-philanthropist and sometime politician who served as Governor of Rhode Island from 1938 to 1940 and was the great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th century railroad magnate; of cancer; in Williamstown, Mass...