Word: restless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshmen Congressmen roughly divide into two types: those who go it alone and those who join the team. Ford was definitely a team player. While more restless freshmen like John F. Kennedy avoided the tedium of the House floor as much as possible, Ford attentively followed debate and parliamentary maneuvers. In his second term, he landed a seat on the Appropriations Committee and became an expert on the defense budget, an intimidating thicket of statistics that most Congressmen shunned. "He had a tremendous capacity for work," says his half brother Tom. "And let's face it, people who have...
...uneventful lives of the Tarletons, a middle class family grown rich in the underwear business, whose restless daughter is engaged to a puny, spoiled aristocrat, are enlivened in Shavian fashion by the unexpected injection of foreign elements. A handsome young man and a Polish lady acrobat drop in quite literally by crashing their aeroplane into the family greenhouse. And a timid would-be gunman secrets himself in the portable Turkish bath in order to avenge his mother's honor by attacking Mr. Tarleton. The volatile Pole, Lina Szczepanowska, puts her finger on how little takes place in this English family...
Died. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 76, restless offshoot of one of New York's richest families; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach, Fla. Opting for journalism over college, Vanderbilt embarrassed his clan in Farewell to Fifth Avenue (1935), a candid volume of childhood memories that caused his name to be struck from the Social Register. Living and working in an elaborately furnished trailer-"I would rather be a vagabond than a Vanderbilt," he once wrote-he periodically skittered round the world to interview celebrities for various newspapers and magazines. He was married seven times, divorced...
...critical problem during the shutdowns was that no one knew who started them or who was running them. There was no union involved, no one committee presenting a set of demands. Caught in a bind by rising fuel prices, owner/operators got restless last year; in December a brief but massive shutdown followed, with highway blockades and assorted acts of violence. The truckers said they were asking not just for fuel price rollbacks, but higher and more profitable weight, length and speed limits...
There were conflicting pressures. Restless activists, reviving the charges of the old George Seldes-A.J. Liebling school, insisted that the press was far too cozy with the nation's political, industrial and cultural leadership?even as major news organizations were accused of being too sympathetic to radicals...