Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over Jimmy Carter's plans to sell 60 F-15 fighters, which are among the world's most advanced interceptors, to Saudi Arabia and 50 less sophisticated F-5Es to Egypt, as well as 35 F-15s and 75 F-16s to Israel. Then, after a subdued roll call that took only 15 minutes, the outcome was official: by 54 to 44, the Senate sided with the President...
GARY HART. The Colorado Democrat too was unable to make up his mind until just an hour before the roll was called. Prominent Jewish leaders "from Los Angeles to Boston" whom he met while managing George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign had besieged him. He received a telephoned plea from Vance. Yet he had been "very impressed" by the pleas of the Saudi princes. While Hart was on his way to the Senate floor, New Republic Editor Marty Peretz made an emotional final-hour anti-sales pitch to him. Vice President Walter Mondale took him aside for a counterplea...
...Springfield, Mo. Even before his arrival, say police investigators, Thevis had greased the jailers' keys. Two deputies received $100 each from Sheriff Alex Watkins, who told them the money came from someone connected with Thevis. Watkins, who says Thevis came "highly recommended" by his attorneys as an "honor roll prisoner," claimed that the money for the two deputies was given because they had been "nice" to Thevis during a brief stay in the jail last January...
...Noted Okun: "What looked to me like a reasonable fiscal policy in December, and indeed a month ago, looks too stimulative today." The same thought dawned on the Administration when it agreed at week's end with congressional leaders to trim the cut to $20 billion and roll it back from Oct. 1 to next New Year...
...audience enthusiasm, Bonoff also experienced some of the rigors of road life. "All this," she comments, "was a lot more fun before it became a career." In Miami, hotel maids made off with her jewelry, and Bonoff, in unusual dudgeon, sought reprisal in classic rock-'n'-roll style: trashing the hotel room. "I started throwing stuff all around," she recalls, "but nothing broke. It was all made of plastic. I just gave...