Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week (see cover stories, THE ECONOMY). He beat back an attempt by the Senate to undercut his foreign policy. He made a startling offer to go before Congress to explain why he had pardoned Richard Nixon. He met with 22 of the nation's mayors and pledged to sign an $11.8 billion mass-transit bill. He reorganized his fumbling White House staff. Though he was obviously distracted by his wife's bout with cancer and visited her every day at the hospital, he also dined with congressional friends, threw a party for retiring members of Congress...
...only remaining question was whether President Ford, long an outspoken critic of public financing, would sign the bill. It is expected that he too, despite personal misgivings, will decide that some reform is essential. Said John Gardner, chairman of the citizens' lobby Common Cause: "We got more than we had expected-other than in the area of public financing of congressional elections." Gardner and other observers predict that by 1978, public funding of House and Senate races will also be a fact...
Among the 650,000 Cubans who have immigrated to the U.S. since Fidel Castro came to power in Havana 15 years ago, the dream for many years was of a post-Castro return to the island homeland. The Cuban exiles still bristle at any sign of a coming rapprochement between the two countries, and were angry about last week's visit to Cuba by U.S. Senators Jacob Javits and Claiborne Pell (see THE WORLD). Miami Extra, a Florida-based Cuban newspaper, scorned the Senators as "tourists of socialism" and ran a cartoon showing the two emerging, battered and bloodied...
...Cuban-American wistfully. "How can the real Cuba be there, when there is a much more pleasant Cuba here!" Many Cubans in the Miami area regularly tune in TV station WQBA, which broadcasts filmed images of the Morro Castle and Havana's National Hotel every midnight before sign-off. But more significantly, the Cuban exiles are becoming U.S. citizens at the rate of 1,000 per month. And of these, 80% are registering to vote...
...prose is a lot like Kurt Vonnegut's, but it lacks the naivete that allows Vonnegut to laugh. Heller's somber style reflects the cautious narrator's inhibitions. Their eventual breakdown only after it has become too late remains in Slocum's eyes a sign of weakness. In the same way, the novel's structure evolves into a complex web out of an increasing sense of urgency. Slocum's failure to reach his children comes, he feels, not from his own virtual breakdown but from the breakdown in American values. Children, he feels, have a right to be pessimistic...