Word: solon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coldest winter in nearly a century dropped temperatures last week to -11° F. in Chicago, -31° F. in Minneapolis and -54° F. in Solon Springs, Wis. Cracked a farmer in Bayfield County, Wis.: "It was so cold that my wheelbarrow wouldn't start." To most Midwesterners, keeping warm was a much more compelling concern than what kind of President Jimmy Carter would make...
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. --Anacharsis to Solon...
LEADERSHIP: The only thing I want to be is Caramanlis. I don't wish to imitate anybody. I believe in Solon's theory. When Solon was asked to describe the best form of government he replied: "For which people and for what period?" This means that each people, and every leader, has to find the form of government that is most suitable...
...Purges. The lingering question: Can Caramanlis make all this stick? He may currently be independent, but he realizes that he must not completely alienate the generals. His Minister of Public Order, Solon Ghikas, has already promised that there would be no purges among the National Security Forces. Last week's signing of a Cyprus ceasefire agreement may have angered some ultra-nationalists but it may also have relaxed some of the tensions between the new government and the military, for the generals were no doubt painfully aware that it was the best that Greece could get in the face...
...paper the Federal Communications Commission's 1970 rule sounded, like an edict of Solon, wise beyond quibble. During the four hours of prime TV time from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. (E.S.T.), the networks would be allowed only three hours, with the remaining time reserved for local stations. The local stations would be forced to come up with their own programming, the FCC reasoned, and hitherto untapped creative energies would be released. Said Commissioner Nicholas Johnson when the rule was announced: "I think television ought to be like a typewriter that's available to everyone...