Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nomination if Carter did not seek reelection, and the writer published it just that way. When one of Kennedy's staffers rushed in to tell him about the story and asked about releasing a denial, Kennedy waved him off. "I said it," conceded the Senator, "so let it stand...
After a quick huddle with Mayor Leon Larisey, Gravelin announced that Cloud Lake would stand on principle and refuse the federal aid. Said Wendy Hallgren, owner of a pottery shop: "There's enough government waste without us adding to it. We're honest, God-fearing people. We're not going to take a handout for a disaster that we never had." So Washington will have to find some other way of spending the relief earmarked for Cloud Lake...
Many Japanese are advocating a stronger stand against foreign demands. An editorial in the Tokyo Shimbun, an influential daily, argues that "it has become a fixed pattern that as soon as Japan concedes one issue, the U.S. brings up a fresh one. We cannot tolerate the disgusting threat of retaliation every time a Congressman opens his mouth." Says Economist Kunihiro Takano: "What the Americans are really telling the Japanese is, 'Change your tastes, your attitude and your life-style so you can buy more American goods.' That borders on domestic interference...
Japan's political leaders are eager to defuse the trade issue before the economic summit meeting of the heads of the major industrial nations begins in Tokyo on June 28. But as matters stand, the session is likely to be marred by a barrage of criticism against Japan by both Americans and Europeans, who are openly threatening to take strong retaliatory steps against Japan by autumn...
Literally coming apart at the seams, as her lawyer put it, O'Hare brought a $1.5 million suit against her surgeon, Howard Bellin. On the stand, O'Hare testified that the 1974 operation had reduced her from a self-confident, aggressive owner of her own employment agency, earning $45,000 a year, to a selfconscious, emotional cripple, barely able to make $18,000. (She has since had corrective surgery by another doctor.) Bellin, whose flamboyant personal style (a contessa wife, visits to Manhattan's Studio 54 disco, a personal p.r. man) irritates some of his colleagues, admitted...