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Until Carter names a successor, Young will remain at his U.N. post. He will thus complete his one-month tour as Security Council president and probably will lead a group of businessmen on a trade mission to West Africa in mid-September. As for his plans after that, he ruled out running for office in 1980, saying that he intends "to work with President Carter for his re-election...
About two dozen people strolled past a quartet of toothless old men outside Cothern's General Store in Riddleton to meet Gore inside the combination grocery store-post office-lending library. Bill Cothern, 30, the store's proprietor, protested the inflation. "How is the common man going to make it?" he asked. "The prices of stuff on my shelves is climbing. It's just disgusting. How much longer can we stand this?" Gore responded by asking how many in his small audience favored wage-and-price controls. All but two raised their hands...
...hell is Rula Lenska?" The question was first asked on the air by Detroit TV News Anchorman Don Lark, then echoed in print by Washington Post Columnist Roger Rosenblatt. She is, as many TV watchers know, a glamorous redhead who appears regularly in commercials for Alberto VO5 hair spray. She tosses her long locks, identifies herself as R-u-ula Lenz-z-zka and speaks of herself as though she were a famous actress. But, as the newscaster asked...
Every morning at 6 a.m. loudspeakers on the ornate clock tower above Hanoi's Central Post Office crackle to life with the strains of the patriotic pop song, In Praise of Ho Chi Minh. Within the hour most of the city's 820,000 residents have mounted their bicycles to head for jobs and schools. No matter where they pedal they never get far from Uncle Ho. His exhortations to BE VIGILANT AND DEFEND THE COUNTRY AT ALL TIMES are posted throughout the city. His steely face surveys every foyer and office. It seems to personify the martial...
...generation labor organizer, McDonald claimed, "I was born with a union spoon in my mouth." In 1959 he staged one of the costliest strikes in U.S. history-a 116-day walkout. Under fire as a "tuxedo unionist" who had lost touch with the rank and file, he surrendered his post in 1965 to his deputy, I.W. Abel...