Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Common Market. Jobert's recently published political memoirs, proudly nationalistic and subtly anti-American, have created a sensation in France, and he is now one of the country's most exciting politicians. To find out what his appeal is, TIME Correspondent George Taber followed Jobert on a swing through southwestern France last week and sent this report...
Shero's critics charge that he sends his men onto the ice looking for a fight. Opponents point to the presence of three "enforcers" in the Flyer lineup-Defense Man Andre ("Moose") Dupont and Wings Bob ("the Hound") Kelly and Dave ("the Hammer") Shultz. That trio seem to swing more at opponents than at the puck. Shultz set a league record of his own last season by occupying the penalty box for 348 minutes, the equivalent of almost six full games. (This year may be worse. He already has accumulated more than 200 penalty minutes...
Although the final results will not be in until the end of the month, the early returns suggest that this holiday season may turn out to be the toughest in many years. As pre-Christmas buying went into what in more prosperous times would have been full swing a week ago, nationwide retail sales were about 5% higher than they had been at the same time last year. But the fact that consumer prices have risen more than 12% since then means that in real terms, retailers' receipts have actually fallen off fairly sharply...
...work, encouraged by Vatican II to re-examine the Scriptures. They are embracing a wide variety of biblical opinions, some of them as liberal as Protestant views. Germany's Hans Küng, for example, has joined those rejecting the belief that Christ was born of a virgin. As Catholics swing away from the right, Protestants have been nudged by new research toward a more traditional view. In 100 licensed sites in Israel, archaeological digging continues to turn up new evidence that the Bible is often surprisingly accurate in historical particulars, more so than earlier generations of scholars ever suspected...
Never Again. Lippmann's most famous public feud was with Lyndon Johnson. L.B. J. had courted Lippmann's support on the Viet Nam War in the belief that Lippmann could swing the nation's liberals and academics into line; the vilification heaped on Lippmann for his opposition prompted Washington Post Cartoonist Herblock to write of the Johnson Administration's "War on Walter Lippmann...