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...despite serious domestic opposition, the government is turning its entire power against those "ungrateful monsters," as one Tory journalist calls the Americans. "If they are condemned unheard, it is because there is no need of a trial," thunders Dr. Samuel Johnson, London's leading literary figure and a confirmed anti-American.* "The crime is manifest and notorious. Their deliberations were indecent and their intentions seditious...
...career of Bunky Knudsen, 63, one of the most star-crossed executives in the U.S. The son of a onetime president of General Motors, Bunky went to work for dad's company and rose to executive vice president. Passed over for the presidency of G.M., he did the unheard-of and jumped to become president of Ford-only to lose out in a power struggle with Lee Iacocca, the current president. Undaunted, Bunky in 1971 took the wheel of White Motor and got off to a promising start. He quickly swung a $290 million line of credit from...
...Chicago, Peg-Legged Bill Veeck (see box page 76), dressed as a Revolutionary soldier and playing a fife, stumped triumphantly across the 100% natural turf he has restored to Comiskey Park. Marching to Veeck's tune were White Sox fans in unheard-of numbers. There were 40,318 in the flesh at opening day (compared with 20,202 last year), season-ticket sales were up more than 40%, and a franchise that had been ready as late as December 1975 to blow the Windy City looked solid as a line-drive double-all because the greatest promoter baseball...
...Federal Reserve have privately indicated that it will permit money growth to hit a rate of 8% to 10% for two or three months if necessary to keep interest rates down. Burns is almost chortling as he makes the rounds of previously hostile congressional committees, pointing to the unheard-of combination of rising output, declining unemployment, falling interest rates and relatively slow money growth...
People in Wallingford still remember well his sophomore year in high school. With Bill starting at cornerback, the team was undefeated and untied. He was an honorable mention all-county selection, unheard of for a sophomore in a county that has produced the Rams' John Cappaletti, the Oilers' Billy Johnson, and several other outstanding professionals...