Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this seemed a mite histrionic to TIME'S Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who wrote the story in New York. Magnuson has bought half a dozen houses in eight years, all of them among the granite and evergreen hills of New Hampshire. Each time, his wife Mae and a skilled craftsman have fixed up the homestead, to see it sold at a profit. Currently, the Magnusons reside in the town of New London, N.H., in a four-bedroom house for which they paid $59,000 last autumn. The taxes are under $800. Muses Magnuson: "Considering that New Hampshire...
...closed. More important than these symbolic moves, this year's capital budget, originally set for $2.5 billion, is being cut drastically. At headquarters in Pittsburgh, and in branch offices from Houston to Tokyo, cutbacks in staff are reaching into the hundreds. Public affairs has been pruned severely; its chief, Senior Vice President Jayne Baker Spain, a former vice chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, is the highest Gulf officer to go so far; at least two more vice presidents also are out. The Gulf Transportation and Trading Co., which directs the firm's fleet of 76 tankers, has also...
After working his way up to a senior vice presidency at an Interpublic advertising branch in Atlanta, Charles Sherry was told that the office was being closed down. But he was not to worry; a job was waiting for him in Manhattan. No thanks, said Sherry...
Cushing of Boston talks with the senior Brady about a dispensation so that his son can marry a Protestant. "I listen for the voice of God," says Cushing at one point, "but to tell you the truth, he don't speak my language. What I listen to mainly is pain." Warm words from a people's pastor, but did Cushing ever say anything like that? Did he, as the book also suggests, drown his painful illnesses in alcohol...
...press have recently been at an unhappy low, there are some who reason that by a President's second year, things are usually that way. Others blame the situation either on the shortcomings of the press or on Carter's people. But Stephen Hess, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, thinks "a more basic reason is boredom...