Word: sideness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Byrne's biggest problem has been the transit strike. By taking a tough stand, she initially had public opinion on her side. The 11,000 transit workers are among the highest paid in the nation; experienced bus drivers make $10.58 an hour. Only a week before the walkout, a settlement seemed in sight. The two Amalgamated Transit Union locals agreed to two cost of living increases a year with a 14% annual ceiling. But then talks abruptly broke...
...worst fears of the Saudi leaders and their neighbors is that the Soviet Union will become actively involved on the side of the monarchies' enemies. So far the Soviets have treated the unrest in the region with relative restraint. But to the east, in Afghanistan, the Soviet role has been aggressive and heavyhanded. Within the past three weeks, according to U.S. intelligence estimates, the Soviets may have tripled their military assistance to the Marxist regime of Hafizullah Amin, which is fighting to hold its own against a country-wide rebellion by Muslim tribesmen. The Soviets are now believed...
When the two first met in 1977, Jimmy Carter and Margaret Thatcher did not particularly take to each other. But much has happened to both since that first frosty encounter. Last week, as Britain's Prime Minister made her first official visit to the U.S., the two stood side by side on the White House lawn beaming with a newfound, very special relationship. On Carter's part, it was first of all sheer gratitude for the most forthright, unequivocal support he has received from any ally; and in the gloom of a dark December her message rang especially...
Books by the children of famous authors are guaranteed an interested or curious audience. On the debit side, the comparisons that follow are likely to be odious. Susan Cheever, 36, accepts this mixed blessing with considerable panache. She never pretends to write like her old man, John, the sage of Ossining, but she alludes regularly and playfully to his imposing presence. When her heroine, Salley Gardens (nee Potter), gets married, one of the wedding guests is J.C. Salley's father, a Columbia University professor, commits an unacknowledged theft from a Cheever short story when commenting on his older brother...
...with marriage and her husband. Divorce leaves her both miserable and sitting pretty. She is courted by a famous sculptor, a gifted writer and an admiring lawyer who takes her for idyllic sails on Long Island Sound. She has an apartment with a terrace on Manhattan's East Side and a woman who comes in to tidy it up. She can afford to jet to the coast to see her sculptor whenever the mood hits her. Her routine is the stuff of beauty-salon fantasies: "Twice a day I treat my face with Erno Laszlo's special soaps...