Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he did not even screen the ads that began appearing on CBS last week. The second biggest outlay will be $4.5 million for the field staff, which already has selected its 50 state coordinators, including former partisans of men whom Carter left dazed in his wake: Scoop Jackson, Mo Udall, Hubert Humphrey...
...Israel's role in Lebanon has been expanded from that of arms supplier to limited partner in the anti-guerrilla war effort. The change combines with the almost cordial relationship that Israel now has with Egypt and the slow disintegration of the unity the Arabs enjoyed in the wake of the 1973 conflict. With Libya at odds with both Egypt and Syria, and such oil-rich nations as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait supporting the region's moderates, Israel is no longer facing a solid wall of active Arab belligerency. The greatest losers in the situation, again...
...Ford made his plans in Vail, he was plainly braced by the mandate of his party at the G.O.P. Convention. Aides noted that right up to the showdown in Kansas City, the appointed President had been conducting a damage-limiting operation in the wake of Watergate. He saw his victory over Reagan, however narrow, as the dividing line, and now believes he has a real chance of winning on Nov. 2. To shake up his organization, Ford eased out affable but ineffective Rogers Morton as campaign director (he will head a still unformed steering committee). Ford replaced Morton with James...
...Philippine earthquake was the most destructive of three that struck Asia last week. The first, measuring 7.2, shook a sparsely populated area near the Great Snow Mountain in central China. It came just as residents of Peking were ending their three-week camp-out in the wake of the great quake that struck the Chinese capital and demolished the nearby industrial city of Tangshan last month. Two days later, a seismic jolt damaged more than a hundred homes on the Izu Peninsula 80 miles south of Tokyo. Scientists said the close sequence of quakes was probably coincidental, though they admit...
...Shootist is deliberately low-keyed and sometimes affecting. But it is hampered by a sentimental, overwrought script and, finally, by its own reserve. The movie keeps the rigid bearing of a kid trying to sit still at a wake...