Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...push over of a campaign for a second term. On yet another Aug. 8, last week, Nixon announced his resignation, midway through his term, ruined by his own deeds. The impossible dream had been transformed into a nightmare and his fall from power was almost poetic in its stark, measured recessional...
...magnitude of the rise came as a shock to Government officials. John Stark, executive director of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, said that it "has dire implications for the consumer price index." He fears that it will "accentuate future wage demands" by workers who can see the buying power of their paychecks going down...
Senators and Congressmen will get a chance to judge a fellow legislator this week-on photography skills. Some 50 color photographs by Tennessee Senator Howard H. Baker Jr., 48, will go on show at a Capitol Hill gallery. Signed by the Senator, the most effective pictures are stark, almost monochromatic hill country landscapes. "Sometimes my wife thinks my photography is more an obsession than a hobby," Baker says. It seems that the wife of South Dakota's junior Senator may soon be feeling the same way; James Abourezk has caught the bug. "Jim already has a sackful of cameras...
...Will history repeat itself?" This apocalyptic message is not the handiwork of aging cynics gone sour on the American dream but of six Naperville, Ill., teenagers. Invited by A. Eicoff & Co., a Chicago advertising agency, to dream up a 60-second public-service spot, the youngsters produced a stark, unadorned outcry against what they conceived to be a deadening decline in the quality of American life. When agency professionals suggested that they coat their bitter pill with a cartoon format or offer solutions to the problems they were portraying, the students flatly refused. The commercial will be aired...
...Years. Nonetheless, it threw into stark relief the uncertain future facing the country. Europe's oldest dictator, after almost 40 years of ironfisted rule, has no obvious successor. There were fears, however exaggerated, that his death could touch off the kind of partisan fighting that engulfed Spain during the Civil War when, as the youngest general in the army, he gained power by overthrowing Spain's republican government...