Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brief notice of the appropriation in the Boston Globe stirred little comment until City Councillor Frederick Langone spoke out about it. "Curley never sat on a bench in his life," Langone cried. He should have something "more dignified." In reply, one William E. O'Halloran of Newtonville took pen in hand and tongue in cheek. A mere $65,000 was "not nearly enough," O'Halloran opined in the Boston Globe's letters column. But there is another way that "will cost us nothing and accomplish much." Concluded O'Halloran: "There is no longer any viable reason...
There simply is no easy answer. President Carter has combed through the cables from Afghanistan concerning the death of our ambassador, Adolph Dubs. The handling of the incident by the Afghans and the Soviet advisers on the scene he found appalling and he spoke out. Yet even in that tragic tangle there is the dilemma of courage. The White House does not believe that the Soviets deliberately intended to harm the ambassador. It was simply their brutish sense of how strong-and, yes, courageous-men respond in a crisis. Crush the offenders and all those...
...student assembly did have some limited success in its first session, but only when it followed up its resolutions by communication with University officials. Ironically, the toilet paper issue poses a good example. A number of assembly members spoke with various administrators, presented unambiguous poll results, provided persuasive arguments, and, eventually, met with success. The limited success of the Nestle boycott stands as another good example of the possibilities of resolution follow...
Finally, a fresh face in Washington who spoke the truth about the imperialism of Moscow−China's Teng Hsiaop...
...other front, former Senator Eugene McCarthy, 62, and Political Columnist James Kilpatrick, 58, began one evening to catalogue the bureaucratic monsters they often encountered: "Mr. Kilpatrick recalled the Budgetary Shortfall he had seen along the Potomac. Mr. McCarthy spoke fondly of Leaping Qantums." They roused Political Cartoonist Jeff MacNelly out of bed to portray their creatures, and the result was A Political Bestiary (McGraw-Hill...