Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul "Green Giant" Volcker for President in '80 on a bold, anti-inflation platform that defends the dollar abroad, puts a nonpartisan squeeze on runaway Government spending at home, and effectively controls the excessive flow of money and plastic money into the U.S. economy.
General "Wild Bill" Donovan, who died 20 years ago, was the Wall Street lawyer whom President Franklin Roosevelt commissioned to set up an intelligence service in 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor. At the time, the U.S. had no formal espionage arm. Snooping had been in disrepute; a decade earlier...
The Donovan award is given by the Veterans of the OSS, the agency's alumni association, to people who exemplify Donovan's virtues, a category broad enough to include Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the Apollo 11 astronauts and Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois. This year's winner...
The prize to be won exactly a year from now, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of 1980, is, of course, the presidency of the U.S. And the struggle for that prize promises to be extraordinarily long, expensive, bitter and important. There are many reasons for...
Robert B. Shira, senior vice president of Tufts, was named acting president of the university in Mayer's absence.