Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This delicate system, to preserve the President's "deniability," was upset by Congress last December when it approved a measure ordering the President himself to certify that any proposed operation "is important to the national security of the U.S.," and to report on the mission "to the appropriate committee of Congress." With the responsibility now clearly his and his alone, any President is going to think twice before approving a risky covert operation, however necessary he may deem...
...again the Atlantic Richfield oil company asked that question in a six-month, $5.5 million advertising campaign that nagged Americans to send in suggestions for improving mass transportation. The company's own idea was plain enough. Top executives of Arco, the seventh largest U.S. oil company, were upset by public resentment of the big profits rolled up by the industry in the wake of the 1973-74 price increases. So they decided to do some image polishing by sponsoring a nationwide debate on alternatives to the family car. The response: an astonishing 30,000 ideas from all 50 states...
Olson returned to Washington with the intention of spending Thanksgiving with his family, but was so upset that he went back to New York without ever seeing them. This time, according to a New York City police report, he registered at the Statler Hotel along with Robert Lashbrook and went to Room 1018A. At 3:20 a.m., the police said, Lashbrook was awakened by the crash of shattering glass. The window on the Seventh Avenue side was broken, and Olson's body was ten stories below...
...preliminaries are finally over. Ever since he upset George Foreman in Zaïre last October to regain the world heavyweight championship, Muhammad Ali has been beefing up his bank account at the expense of harmless opponents. First he played with Chuck Wepner in Cleveland for $1.5 million, then humiliated Ron Lyle in Las Vegas for $1 million. Last week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he pocketed $2.5 million with an easy 15-round decision over European Heavyweight Champ Joe Bugner. In fact, his toughest opponents in Kuala Lumpur were the sopping 118° under the ring lights and the near...
...merely be a mildly interesting footnote to tennis history, and that only because his opponent, Arthur Ashe, 31, was the first black to reach the men's finals in Wimbledon's center court. They were wrong. Rocketing his serves and precisely stroking his ground shots, Ashe stunningly upset Connors, 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4, in the all-American final to win tennis' most coveted cup and a $22,000 prize. His achievement has been equaled by only one other black tennis player: Althea Gibson, who won the women's singles at Wimbledon...