Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascinating part of the final programs is Nixon's rather paternal attitude toward his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. He describes Kissinger as brilliant but a bit immature, overly concerned about potential power rivals like Texan John Connally, too intrigued by Hollywood and other show-business celebrities. Nixon claims he was not bothered by some indiscreet criticism from Henry. "An odd man ... unpleasant ... very artificial," Kissinger was once heard to say about Nixon at a dinner in Ottawa when he was unaware that his table microphone was on. Nixon tells Frost with good humor: "He didn't remember to turn...
...Samuel Lewis, 46, to Israel. Though a professional diplomat, he too is a surprise, since he has had little experience in the Middle East. ("Maybe that's his biggest advantage," quips a senior State Department official.) Lewis, a Texan who joined the Foreign Service in 1954, served in Brazil during the '60s and later became Latin American specialist for the National Security Council. Most recently, he has been deputy director of State's Office of Policy Planning and assistant secretary for International Organization Affairs...
...painful case to date. A Rhodes scholar and onetime football hero, he goes to seed in classic Southern style. He takes up the law, drink and the care of a rundown showplace home near New Orleans. Only when he suspects the infidelity of his second wife, Margot, a brassy Texan worth $10 million, does Lancelot realize what he has made of his life: "I had done nothing but fiddle at law, fiddle at history, keep up with the news (why?), watch Mary Tyler Moore, and drink myself into unconsciousness every night...
Certain terms, of course, may become quaint, but will always be irreplaceable. Pound cake will remain just that, no matter how many grams the ingredients weigh. A miss will never be as good as a kilometer; no Texan is likely to wear a 38-liter hat. In some cases, neither form of measurement matters much. The day that hell freezes over, whether it happens in Celsius (0°) or Fahrenheit (32°), it will still rate a TIME cover...
...driving force behind Radio Shack's success is Tandy Corp.'s chairman and president Charles D. Tandy, 58, a Texan who attended Harvard Business School, sold war bonds while serving in the Navy, then went into the family leather-goods business at the end of World War II. He bought the small Boston-based Radio Shack chain 13 years ago, when it was $1.5 million in debt...