Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regins Christman from Tufts took first place in both the slalom and giant slalom events. Her squad reportedly has tow more good racers who missed the last meet because they were sick...
...keynote speaker, Reverend Ralph Abernathy of the S.C.L.C., gets a big hand with "Power to the people." Dick Gregory's "This is a sick, insane, unethical country..." gets a bigger hand. "We will oppose the reactionary violence of the Capitalists and their lackeys." Jesus Lopez a Puerto Rican predicts, "With the revolutionary violence of the workers...
Although these reports seemed based on journalistic crystal gazing, there was no doubt that Brezhnev was indisposed and incommunicado. If Brezhnev should be too sick to rule, who would replace him? The answer may prove as problematical as the tangled mechanics of the transfer of power in the U.S.S.R. Although a General Secretary is supposedly elected by the 241 full members of the Central Committee, in practice he is designated by 27 men, members of the Politburo and the Central Committee Secretariat. In the past, this elite has scarcely been inclined to invest real power in any single individual...
Logical Choice. Specialists in Washington and Europe believe the most logical choice to succeed Brezhnev would be Andrei Kirilenko. During Brezhnev's present illness, Kirilenko is presumably standing in for his chief in the Politburo. In recent years he has often filled this role when Brezhnev was sick or traveling abroad. Thus Kirilenko would make an ideal transitional figure for a few years. At 68, Kirilenko represents no real threat to the younger members of the 16-man Politburo and ten-man Secretariat of the Central Committee, who would be jockeying for power under his titular leadership...
...liberation movement, feels that Fear of Flying will help free both sexes. As women take more initiative and responsibility for their sex lives, he believes, "some of the pressure will be removed from men." Feminist Spokeswoman Betty Friedan hails the book for its humor and playfulness: "I'm sick of the bitter things that have come out of feminism...