Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such measures would bolster Bonn's police powers-a development that also worries many Germans in view of their country's Nazi past. But if the mood of the country in the wake of the Schleyer kidnaping is any guide, most Germans today feel that the dangers of increased terrorism are far greater than the risk of democratically elected governments in Bonn misusing increased powers...
...woman sweeps by in a slinky dress with a remarkably low decolletage. Heads turn as she passes, leaving a wake of admiring comments. Men seem bent on cornering women, on getting them away from possible competitors, but they rarely succeed. The ratio isn't that good yet, apparently. No one remembers names. Someone actually asked his companion what his SATs were. A guy wearing a Lacoste shirt (the international symbol of preppiness) climbs the stairs in Weld North, claiming he is "trying to perfect his preppie image...
...Lance Affair Carter's biggest immediate problem remained the continuing criticism of Budget Director Bert Lance in the wake of the mixed review that Lance received from U.S. Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann (TIME, Aug. 29). By his ringing endorsement of Lance ("Bert, I'm proud of you") Carter clearly opened himself to the charge that he was reneging on his pledge to avoid even the appearance of impropriety among his appointees. "There's no doubt that the President has used up some credit," said one White House staffer last week. "He told the people...
...mood of stock-market professionals, those money managers for brokerage houses and investment firms who handle billions of other people's assets, is so pessimistic these days that they are talking like mourners at a wake. Their business is in turmoil and trouble: the profits and numbers of brokerage firms are both falling, and brokers are tense about the effect of changes that the Securities and Exchange Commission intends to force concerning the rules they operate under...
...glory. Born in Tupelo, Miss., he was an only child whose parents scraped along on odd jobs until the family moved to Memphis when Elvis was 13. He was fanatically and unabashedly devoted to his mother. He was buried near her after the kind of awful, agonized public wake that attended the passing of Rudolph Valentino and Judy Garland. Eighty thousand fans jammed the street outside his Memphis mansion, Graceland, hoping for a view of the body; 30,000 were admitted to the house. Dozens swooned, cried, keened and passed out from the heat outside the mansion gates. Two people...