Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these changes? There were several reasons, but perhaps most important was our increasing use of fast-breaking color photographs. These, we thought, required a simpler, cleaner-looking environment. Managing Editor Henry Grunwald finds the new design "neat and orderly. It should encourage discipline and emphasize organization, which is at the heart of the newsmagazine principle. But this sense of order will not inhibit us. Quite the contrary, it will make the occasional splash, the bold visual gesture easier...
...President was getting along because he was going along. After threatening to veto big spending bills, he compromised more than people thought he would. He reached agreement with Congress on a raise in the minimum wage, from $2.30 an hour to $2.65 an hour, and on a farm price-support bill that may cost $4 billion this year instead of his original limit of $2.3 billion. Says O'Neill: "Carter's people came down here with a chip on their shoulder against Congress. Carter thought Congress was like the rednecks of the Georgia legislature." Now O'Neill...
Much of the research was devoted to LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs, which the CIA wrongly thought could be used to squeeze information from enemy agents and discredit them by disturbing their memories or changing their sex drives, making them either extremely over-or undersexed...
...L.B.J. the mime would quaver, holding up an imaginary two-piece phone. Then Johnson would act out his own role. "Yes, yes, go ahead, George." And sure enough, the Duke would report another election landslide for his chosen candidates, Lyndon being one. Johnson was funny imitating Parr. The thought of Parr was funny, being as how he was a thousand miles away in some sagebrush boondocks...
...these twists and turns, the mixing of deceit and truth, the use of corrupt means for noble ends, seem to have inhibited serious assessment of Johnson so far. Around Washington last week there was a thought or two that maybe Johnson, already so suspect, would have less distance to fall than some who had left office on loftier notes. There is a group of politicians, for which Johnson may qualify, who have come out of the seamy regions of American life and used the devious rituals learned to gain power, but have also held a certain reverence for the system...