Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Broken Agreement. When he threw down the gauntlet last week, Mintoff broke an agreement with Heath to continue negotiating at least until next March. Evidently, Mintoff figured that he was in strong diplomatic shape for an early showdown. He has been courting the Soviets for some time, and last week, after he fired his shot at Whitehall, he ostentatiously flew off for secret talks with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's anti-Western regime in Libya...
...global and domestic repercussions, Kissinger and Burns eventually asked Nixon to soften Connally's approach. Japan and Canada in particular were incensed at the trade penalties, since they rely so heavily upon U.S. markets. But the U.S. at year's end struck a good bargain. The deal was taking shape: a shift in the balance of world currencies in exchange for devaluation of the dollar and the dropping of the import surcharge...
...chances of the independent candidate for Governor, Dan Walker, a Chicago lawyer and onetime vice president of Montgomery Ward who authored the famed Walker Report on rioting at the 1968 Democratic Convention. If they emerge divided from a bruising primary, the Democrats will not be in the best shape to defeat Nixon -and once again Hanrahan may be keeping an eye on the voting machines. The Hanrahan affair could be the beginning of the end of Richard Daley...
...Maybe I need a son to even things up, because I'm out of shape," said Muhammad Ali when his twin daughters were born 16 months ago-making three girls for the Alis. But even females can help out with the roadwork, as Jamillah and Reeshemah discovered in Zurich, Switzerland, where the ex-champ was training for his Boxing Day exhibition match with West German Heavyweight Jurgen Blin...
Philadelphia's former police commissioner, now mayor-elect, Frank Rizzo admitted in an interview that he had always kept his files in "good shape" on the "jokers" who "infiltrate" and manipulate protest groups. Rizzo argued that tough surveillance tools are necessary in a democracy to protect well-meaning people who might otherwise be "led to slaughter like sheep-you know, just like...