Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprisingly, United and Pan Am, which are two of the biggest airlines, are the most vocal advocates of deregulation. Explains Pan Am's Chairman, William T. Seawell: "The brightest and most satisfying prospect in Pan Am's future is our entry?at long last?into the American domestic market, as part of the deregulation trend." Delta and Eastern strongly oppose deregulation. Smaller and medium-size carriers are trying to line up merger partners to keep from being swallowed up by the big airlines if and when deregulation goes through. Texas International is trying to take over National. Defensive linkups...
...Among his favorites: Mozart, Bob Dylan, and Willie Nelson, 45, carousing king of outlaw country. At the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md., the shirt-sleeved President and his pantsuited wife Rosalynn helicoptered in from Camp David to join the ranks of 12,000 fans and hear Willie match vocal cords with Emmylou Harris, 31. When Willie finished Georgia on My Mind, Carter emerged from the sidelines, and the two good ole boys who made good wrapped each other...
...Brown, the Celtics franchise means big time. He inherits a winning history, a vocal crowd and a potentially stronger team. He appears willing to invest the rebuilding dollars that Levin was reluctant to shell...
...past other conservative Alabama Democrats to win a Senate seat in 1968. Proving himself a wizard of the Senate rule book, he proceeded to confound his Northern colleagues by calling for a jumble of motions, resolutions and postponements on key issues that usually wrung concessions for his vocal Southern bloc. The filibuster was his most powerful tool until 1975, when, over his elaborate objections, the Senate modified Rule 22 to allow the votes of only three-fifths of the fall Senate to limit debate on most matters. In the canal fight, Allen urged and won an amendment permitting the maintenance...
Jordan, who has served as executive director of the National Urban League since 1972, has for years been one of the nation's most vocal proponents of economic revitalization for American cities, as a means of increasing the economic opportunities of blacks across the country. A native of Atlanta, Ga., Jordan worked as an attorney for the Atlanta Office of Economic Opportunity before taking on duties with the United Negro College Fund, and later the leadership of the National Urban League. As one of the leading spokesmen for urban blacks, he has been active in policy advising in Washington...