Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's great strength lies in the long distance events and the weight classes. Roy Shaw--who sparkled in a come-from-behind mile win in last Saturday's G.B.C.T. meet--Tom Spengler, and Jon Ensco provide the team with its mile power, and Shaw and Ensco also combine to give the Crimson winning speed...
Last week the FCC delivered what could be the heaviest blow of all. By a 6-to-1 vote, the commissioners ruled that all cigarette advertising should be banned from TV and radio. Whether the FCC really has the power to order and enforce such a ban will be decided ultimately by Congress, and perhaps in the courts. Last week's ruling was the opening shot in what shapes up as an incendiary battle that will carry through 1969 and probably beyond...
Higher totals, however, do not tell the whole story. The profit gains were in inflated dollars, which have less purchasing power when plowed back into raw materials, expanded inventories or new plants. Some companies also made their profits look better by changes in accounting methods, notably to straight-line depreciation procedures, by which equipment costs are distributed over a greater number of years. Items...
Greek-born Tom Pappas has made a lifetime habit of cultivating the powerful. Now a cherub-faced, grandfatherly figure of 69, he has become a power himself -though not always quite so potent as he likes to let on. He says: "Spiro followed my advice and switched from Rockefeller to Nixon." The largest U.S. firms seek his aid before doing business in Greece, where Pappas counts as the best-connected American citizen around. His close ties with Greece's strongman, George Papadopoulos, and the ruling military junta have made him an unofficial representative of Athens in Washington...
...proceed with an ABM program, the military now asks of Congress $1.7 billion and authority to acquire their second and third sites in Seattle and Chicago. In the Senate, at least, there is an even chance that these requests will be refused, a reassertion of Senate power in foreign policy long-awaited since Vietnam...