Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporter-style, Trudeau often shows up at Senate hearings, conventions and other news events. Last fall he accompanied President Ford to China, where the cartoonist made diplomatic and aerodynamic history by tossing his Frisbee with NBC Correspondent Tom Brokaw atop the Great Wall. Reports the discus thrower: "The wall was too narrow to go for distance, and the wind currents were bad." Trudeau also wrote and illustrated a 3,000-word report on the trip for 75 client papers, and did prliminary sketches for Uncle Duke's arrival last month as Chinese envoy. This week, Trudeau will attend...
...Salute to Dorothy Hamill" night in nearby Stamford, Connecticut. The event was a showcase for area talent and a benefit for the Olympic fund. A crowd of 1800 jammed the Stamford indoor rink to catch a glimpse at America's skating sweetheart. In the press box, Stamford Advocate reporter Tom Shantz and I traded notes on our scheduled interview with Hamill...
...next morning I woke to read The New York Times, and was somewhat startled to find in bold-headlines--"U.S. Champion Accuses Judges of Bias--Ponders Retirement." Tom called at noon to say that since the night before had produced little sports news of national worth, our story had mushroomed to lead status throughout the country...
...bigger Government." Declared the President: "The American people know that promises that the Federal Government will do more for them every year have not been kept. I make no such promises. I offer no such illusion." Ford urged the nation to practice the "common sense" once preached by Tom Paine, and called for a return to the old-fashioned virtues of "restraint" and "self-reliance." The President said, "The time has now come for a fundamentally different approach [to Government], for a new realism that is true to the great principles upon which this nation was founded...
Preiml, 36, is the Austrian equivalent of football's total technician Tom Landry: both leave nothing to chance. All his jumpers are tested for heart and lung capacity in repose as well as under stress, and he has even sent them to the Schellbach Institute in West Germany for a dose of will-strengthening therapy. It must work, since Preiml has at least four medal threats, including 90-Meter Favorite Karl Schnabl. No secrets, Preiml says. Except for his wonder wax initially developed by a Viennese glazier to coat windows...