Word: straightener
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...roles, any games. He never tries to impress anybody. All the rest of us need something from Jimmy. Kirbo doesn't want anything. He's the only guy I know who could walk away from all that power. If Jimmy ever got bigheaded, the first guy to straighten him out would be Kirbo." Then Rafshoon adds wishfully: "Boy, would I love to do a film on Charlie Kirbo. I can see it all: Henry Fonda playing the lead." Says Campaign Director Hamilton Jordan: "If Jimmy Carter were running against Charlie Kirbo, I'd vote for Charlie...
...straighten out the mess, Portugal's new democratically elected government will have to take some tough measures that may make things worse before they get better. Basket-case industries like textile mills and electronics may be allowed to go under. Further import controls may be imposed, accompanied by a large devaluation of the escudo. "This country has to learn to work again," says Raul de Almeida Capela, a director of the Banco Portuguès do Atlántico. After the two-year political free-for-all, that may not be an easy task...
...athletics, conceded on Thursday that there was indeed intra-departmental confusion over facility allocations. "What I think has happened," Pittenger said, "is that because of schedule conflicts there has been a communication breakdown and the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. But we'll straighten this all out at the first of next week...
Soon, however, Bailyn's delightfully revealing historical vignettes forced the Redcoats to surrender their traditional reserve. Bailyn first told the story of an unruly English lad, sent by his parents to America and Harvard in hopes that he would straighten himself out. George Downing, Class of 1645, who returned to England as an adult, did go on to make his name here but never fully reformed. Bailyn noted that the Encyclopedia Britannica, rarely a source of exaggerated rhetoric, stepped out of character to say of Downing: "His character was marked by treachery, servility and ingratitude." The Britannica went...
...Crimson (The Mail, Nov.5) Professor Martin Kilson attacks me as a "low-profile Jewish militant." I do not wish to trade labels with him, but I hope that I may be allowed, briefly, to straighten out the facts with which he attacks me, since he has just about all of them wrong...