Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...although Carter was already depending on Strauss to direct his re-election campaign, he chose the Texan as his special envoy to the Middle East last April. Once again the narrow limits of Carter's talent pool were revealed, for Strauss had little cachet in the diplomatic field, but he would bring the President a more audacious and political style in the Middle East. "I don't care whether Cy likes it or not," Carter told his aides, anticipating a protest from Vance. The President made certain to tell Brzezinski explicitly that he wanted Strauss's role...
...college campus atmosphere that was established at the center in the early 1970s to make Navy life more attractive to recruits. The Navy decided to get tough after hundreds of trainees rioted for two days in late June in a park and along the sleazy strip of bars, pool halls and prostitute haunts near the base's gates. Complaining that they had been continually cheated by merchants on the strip, the sailors went on a window-smashing, rock-throwing rampage that ended only when the Shore Patrol and North Chicago police officers charged into the mob, swinging their billy...
...discoyery: he no longer loved her. Five years ago in Lebanon, Khashoggi divorced her. That divorce, suggests Mitchelson, was invalid. Nevertheless, citing "irreconcilable differences," Soraya last week sadly filed for a legal separation from Khashoggi, whose possessions include five jets and a $2 million Manhattan duplex complete with swimming pool. Never mind Lebanon; she filed in California, where community property laws could give her $2 billion plus $540 million for heartbreak...
Here and on the following pages, TIME identifies some of them. The 200 young leaders of five years ago were all 45 years old or younger. This time the age limit remains the same. But only 50 leaders were sought, not because of a diminished pool of talent but because many of the previous 200 would once again qualify?they still have not reached...
...mayors. A former civics teacher and school district trustee, she oversees not only the 353,400 people and 120 sq. mi. of her home town of Austin but also a household of four sons, aged eleven to 16. McClellan starts the morning with a dawn breakfast followed by car-pool duty to get the children to school, works all day with Austin's city manager and six-member council, and hurries home to cook dinner for her children (she is a divorcee). She then returns to city hall for more paper work. Since taking office in 1977, McClellan...