Word: prospects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thompson faces the prospect of residing in an Illinois prison for up to 40 months. Other states have asked for information on him and are making extradition plans. Yet the forger will not devote the rest of his career to making license plates. So impressed are Illinois investigators with Thompson's exploits that they have offered him a guest lectureship. If the offer is approved, he will be escorted out of the pokey for brief periods to explain to state police just...
...George Wallace in North Carolina, helped considerably by black voters (see story page 17), moved him closer to that goal. He now has 134 delegates. Behind him are Wallace with 58, Henry Jackson with 51 and Morris Udall with 23 (needed to nominate: 1,505). But Wallace has little prospect of winning any primaries except Alabama...
Bradlee's elation is understandable, and not just because very few people get to see glorifications of themselves by one of America's finest actors. All the President's Men had every prospect of failing big. Since work began on it three years ago, it has been, as its screenwriter of record, William Goldman, says, "the biggest gossip picture since The Godfather." There was hazard, if not a touch of hubris, in turning a national trauma into a mere movie?and so quickly too. The film would be released before the nation's emotions had dried into something like...
...offer did. Responds St. Louis Cardinal Outfielder Lou Brock: "The owners are afraid to make changes when they know they have to. They are on a string of hope not based on reality." For the moment though, everyone was looking forward to the altogether more enjoyable prospect of getting the game back on the field. Whatever was finally resolved across the bargaining table, it seemed clear that after nearly a century, baseball's perpetual reserve clause would be ejected from the game...
...protested that his policies were under fire from both the political left and right, and claimed that this double attack could result in a U.S. foreign policy "paralysis, no matter who wins in November." He explained: "If one group of critics undermines arms-control negotiations and cuts off the prospect of more constructive ties with the Soviet Union, while another group cuts away at our defense budgets and intelligence services and thwarts American resistance to Soviet adventurism, both combined will, whether they have intended it or not, end by wrecking the nation's ability to conduct a strong, creative...