Word: walle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many unions later supported him in his campaigns for Governor. But there were limits to his liberalism. Indulging his passion for modern art, he commissioned the well-known Communist Artist Diego Rivera to paint a mural for the center. When a likeness of Lenin began to emerge on the wall, Rockefeller hastily sacked Rivera and destroyed the offending mural. It was replaced by a more appropriate work, featuring Abe Lincoln and Thomas Edison...
...moments of introspection, observers say, the Shah becomes particularly angry at the aides who surrounded him. Out of misguided loyalty, he now senses, they shielded him from reality. "My advisers built a wall between myself and my people," the Shah bitterly told Sadat at Aswan. "I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people. Don't let that happen...
...than ever and cut off service to remote towns. A new truckers' lobby called ACT (for Assure Competitive Transportation) has circulated petitions calling for O'Neal's resignation, a demand that Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons echoed in a letter to President Carter in mid-January. But Wall Street seems persuaded that some form of deregulation is inevitable-many once high-rolling trucking stocks have fallen sharply-and indeed the American Trucking Association is defensively drafting its own, as yet extremely vague, deregulation plan...
...comic crazy. Annie is S.R.O. on Broadway, Superman is the highest grossing movie, and prime-time TV looks like one vast kiddieland. The Incredible Hulk is breaking up the furniture, Wonder Woman is bouncing over buildings, Captain America is flexing his muscles, and Spider-Man is crawling up the wall...
Last week's Chinese-style wall posters and letter to former President Richard M. Nixon may be symptoms of a rift among the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, club officers agreed last week...