Word: posting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure there is some Soviet influence" at work in the country. Retorted Tass: "A downright lie. It is the U.S. that has inundated Iran with military experts, advisers and consultants, whose subversive activities were until recently guided by [Richard] Helms, one of Turner's predecessors in the post of CIA director...
...slush fund within the now disbanded Department of Information claimed its first major victim: Cornelius P. ("Connie") Mulder, 53, powerful Minister of Plural Relations and Nationalist boss of South Africa's huge Transvaal province. Bowing to pressure from his party colleagues, Mulder reluctantly resigned from his euphemistically named Cabinet post, where he administered the apartheid laws that govern the lives of South Africa's 18.5 million blacks. Said Mulder: "I have no remorse in my soul about the entire matter, because everything I have done I did in the conviction that I was serving my country, South Africa...
...Washington decides to say nuts to the increase, it is not clear what "persuasion" it can apply. Stop buying Hershey bars for post exchanges, perhaps...
Four months after being ousted as president of Ford Motor Co., and six days after he had stunned the auto world by taking the same post at troubled Chrysler Corp., Lee Iacocca, 54, sat down with TIME Correspondents Barrett Seaman and Paul Witteman to muse about his new job and his industry. Iacocca's conversation is pure stream of consciousness, leaping from topic to topic at machine-gun speed; it is also refreshingly blunt and unencumbered by modesty. Excerpts: ON WHY HE CHOSE HIS NEW EMPLOYER: I had many offers to be chief executive of big [nonauto] companies...
...time when large-scale magazine color illustration, thanks to radically improved printing technology, had become one of the keys to mass culture?the television, one might say, of pre-electronic America. It was the illustrators' moment; born into it, Rockwell kept climbing. By 1920 he was the Post's star draftsman. By 1925 he had become a national name, and by the end of the Depression he was an American institution: it is unprovable, but probable, that Rockwell's images did more to bolster the assaulted values of American bourgeois life after the Crash than all the politicians' speeches lumped...