Word: whitmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smokes nor drinks and will not tolerate profanity. On occasion, he will partake of a "Pat Boone Special" (ginger ale with a dash of grape juice). His strongest expletive is "Goodness gracious sakes alive!" And after a tough day on the court, he unwinds by reading poetry (Shakespeare, Shelley, Whitman). Or, if he needs a special uplift, he will dash off a few lines of his own. Sample...
...achieved, he said, 1973 can be, not just "a very good year" like 1972, but "a great year" in which the U.S. will "enter into a sustained period of strong growth, full employment and price stability." His three-member Council of Economic Advisers-Herbert Stein, Marina von Neumann Whitman and Ezra Solomon-went on to describe the prospects in a 301-page report that could best be characterized as soberly glowing...
Fittingly enough, the first CEA report to be prepared partly by a woman -Marina von Neumann Whitman, the council's only female member-is also the first to contain a chapter on the role of women in the economy. The chapter was included because CEA Chairman Herbert Stein was asked to write an article for the Ladies' Home Journal on the subject; looking into the matter, he discovered what Mrs. Whitman calls "a mass of ignorance." The CEA report cuts through that ignorance in rather gloomy fashion and indicates that women have made startlingly little progress toward...
Even in a period of increasing terrorism, it was a startling explosion of violence. When it was over, six people were dead and nine wounded. The episode was reminiscent of Charles Whitman's homicidal outburst from the top of Austin's Texas Tower, but last week's madness seemed to have more method. The victims were all white, and seven-three dead, four wounded-were policemen...
...junior varsity squad is composed of Sally Lee, Sue Handy, Marian Childs, Jenny Whitman, and Liz Durfee. They also see action in ten-women varsity matches and provide the 'Cliffe with the depth needed to compete in tournament play...