Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union may well be decided. Neither Washington nor Moscow could retain its pre-eminence in the world without maintaining close ties with Europe. Despite Japan's surging economic might and China's waxing nuclear arsenal, Europe alone possesses the talented population, economic power, technological skills, and geographic position to rank, along with the U.S. and Russia, in the triad of world powers...
Last week's strike stems in part from the discontent that now seems to pervade much of labor. In addition, union chiefs feel that they must take inflexible stands to impress the rank and file. Dennis, or "C.L.," as he is known to union brothers, is up for re-election next year and desperately needs to make a strong showing. He has been pressed by a competing union: the more vigorous Teamsters have been successfully raiding the clerks' membership. So disastrous were the results of a recent strike against Northwest Airlines that some clerks burned C.L. in effigy...
...thought, rightly (after the film), that James Mason was wrong for Humbert. Richard Burton was an early choice, but after one musical (Lerner's Camelof), Burton decided: "I have no desire to repeat this fascinating but exacting experiment." In his place will go John Neville, 45, a first-rank British actor. "When I was first approached," he admits, "my feeling was that I didn't see how it could be done with taste...
More likely candidates are Dr. Leonard Cronkhite Jr., director of the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, and Dr. Thomas Points, a Deputy Assistant Secretary at HEW. Both men rank high on previously compiled lists of possible assistant secretaries. Equally important to an Administration that is visibly tired of internal dissension, both are Republicans...
...House, however, where committees are much larger and where the Democrats have no fewer than four of the 65-and-over set patiently waiting to take the place of Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, 65, on the Armed Services Committee. But the plan would at least give the rank and file some leeway in picking its leaders. More important, it would put a chairman on notice that he held his post by approval and not by right...