Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carr sat heavily in his big leather chair behind his littered desk in the handsome office in downtown San Marco." If Buckley has written Frank Merriwell Joins the CIA, Lindsay's lumbering parable could be subtitled Seven Years in May. The time is the not too distant future. Runaway unemployment and racial strife have brought about two years of martial law in America. Before Congress is a "Special Powers" bill that will eliminate virtually all civil liberties. "There may be," a Justice Department official concedes, "a minor constitutional question about...
...Queens home to join the Marines. "I was afraid the war would be over before I got in," said Columnist Art Buehwald, "so I gave some drunk a half-pint of whisky and got him to sign my papers as my father." Last week Buchwald was given the "Runaway of the Year" award-predated to 1942-by the Special Approaches in Juvenile Assistance Board. The funnyman allowed as how he had only one regret: "The old drunk who patriotically gave me to his country" was not on hand for the occasion. Unlike a journalist, Art wasn't writing down...
...after the Crimson's third runaway victory of the year, this time 8-1 over a top-heavy Army squad Saturday, the handwriting reads "Maybe." And that "Maybe" is not indelible...
Nowhere has the News' new purposefulness been more apparent than in its coverage of the city's financial troubles. The paper was warning about runaway pension costs, one of the main factors in the present crisis, as long as four years ago, when a series of News stories persuaded the New York legislature to put a freeze on future increases in state pension-plan membership. In a recent issue of [Morel the journalism review, Financial Commentator Louis Rukeyser rated the News' editorials on the city's financial plight as more cogent and less partisan than those...
...meet demands for greater economy, the U.S. auto industry is showing strong signs of recovery. In mid-October, traditionally a flat car-buying period, sales for the Big Four were up 37% over the same period a year ago. American Motors, its Pacer "wide bodied" small car a runaway bestseller, led the way with a 53.5% increase. General Motors followed, with its new subcompact Chevette off to a fast start, with a jump of 43%. Chrysler's sales soared 33% and Ford...