Word: various
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through, asked a sharp question: "What bugs you about the Washington press corps?" Somewhat sarcastically, Carter answered that he had no dispute with such "a group of superbly qualified, highly objective, extremely intelligent analysts," but he added that he planned to "let my voice be heard and felt . . . from various places in the country." This week the new campaign of hard-selling will take him to Bardstown, Ky., and more trips are being planned...
Volcker is the only man in history who has officially devalued the U.S. dollar twice. As Under Secretary of the Treasury, he was the technician who hopped from chair to chair around the table negotiating various devaluation figures with the delegates to a 1971 currency conference in Washington. And in 1973 he secretly shuttled among the main industrial nations themselves, flying 31,000 miles in five days, losing his hat in Tokyo and exhausting his supply of cheap cigars and clean shirts before returning with an agreement...
...called his "portfolio of interests"-a file fat enough to occupy any energetic man full time. He planned to teach a course at Harvard on the press and politics, write a book about his 40-year career as a journalist, consult two or three days a week on various Time Inc. projects, serve on the boards of the Washington Star, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., and the Ford Foundation, among others...
Politics has turned out to be a particularly risky profession. Among the original 200, there were 65 elected officials. Only 38 still hold office; 18 were turned away at the polls; the rest chose not to run again for various reasons. In some cases, the losers' defeats said more about the vagaries of American politics than about their own abilities. Harvey Sloane, for example, was mayor of Louisville when he was profiled in 1974. He effectively and intelligently guided his city through a busing crisis. But in his bid for Governor this year, Sloane was beaten by former Kentucky...
This month Yant's lonely crusade began to bring results. A second grand jury returned a new round of indictments against Weikel. A petition was filed, signed by 6,580 citizens, calling for Weikel's removal. Last week the sheriff pleaded no contest to various misdemeanor charges and resigned from office. The felony charges were dropped. Says...