Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bilateral relations have also been damaged by the confusion that has characterized too much of the Administration's diplomacy. Last March, for instance, Carter delivered a tough speech at Wake Forest University, drafted primarily by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, warning the Soviets of U.S. military power. The very next day, one of Vance's top aides telephoned the Soviet ambassador to call his attention to more conciliatory parts of the speech...
...what'll you give old Lester for this genuine Pickrick fly swatter?" shouted Lester Maddox, 62. This remnant from the Pickrick, the ex-Georgia Governor's once racist, now defunct Atlanta restaurant, was part of the Maddox memorabilia sold at auction last week. Also on the block: WAKE UP AMERICA Lester Maddox alarm clocks, T shirts printed with the Governor's favorite expression "Phooey!" and autographed axes like those Maddox once gave to the band of whites helping him keep out blacks who tried to come to dinner. The aim of the auction...
Despite such calming gestures, a residue of bitterness persists in the wake of Proposition 13's passage. The city council in Livermore (pop. 54,400) has taken a defiant stand, vowing to spend $320,000 on new council chambers even while threatening to fire a fourth of the city's 207 employees. "There might never be that much money on hand again for years," explains Assistant City Manager Edward Shilling...
...selfless dedication and highly personalized style" and renewed his license for three years. Battle over, Geller hopes that advertising will pick up. Says he: "It's taken ten years of starving before the big national advertisers realized I was here, but they're starting to wake up." Score another one for the little...
...staring fish." Great novelists are born with the knack. Good journalists must master it. Jane Howard is a good journalist. In fact, she is one of the best of those soft-stepping Austenian observers who seem to glide easily over a situation or a subject without leaving a distorting wake. "My way," she writes, "is to use my intuition as a compass, go where I feel welcome, stay as long as I can manage to, meet whoever is around, help them do what they are doing if they will let me, and try to remember that she who asks least...