Word: wield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambitious, some readers will expect it to solve all the problems of the Cold War, to furnish an analytic framework for all Americans Foreign policy after 1945. Clearly, more historical and particularly economic analysis is still needed. But for an understanding of power and the men who wield it, of bureaucracies and the ways they function and malfunction, and of the arrogance of America in the Sixties, Halberstam's book is invaluable. Here at Harvard, home of many of the best and the brightest, it is time to learn that pure knowledge without guidance has no moral value...
...where Julian Bond will from here. His refusal to leave Atlanta (which, last we forget, is surrounded by Georgia), and the recent Congressional victory of black preacher Andrew Young are factors which may force Bond into premature political eclipse. Black state senator Leroy Johnson is now said to wield for more clout than Bond with the state. Judging by his new book, Bond is as eloquent as ever, though his batting average as innovator and philosopher is relatively low, Still, there is promise of good things from Julian Bond. Although it is uncertain whether they will be enacted or merely...
...Gordon Mills stands at the forefront of what Variety calls "the new strong men of the music biz"-the talent managers, who now wield the influence and prestige once exclusively held by pop publishers, record-company executives and sometimes disk jockeys. Mills is releasing O'Sullivan's songs on his own new record label, MAM, named after the parent Mills company, Management Agency and Music. The original MAM, whose profits are running around $6,000,000 a year, has some 30 subsidiaries that, among other things, own all of Paul Anka's songs, manage the British appearances...
...nevertheless became one of three men to inherit the command of the family when Genovese died in 1969. Of the others, Gerardo Catena has since been imprisoned for refusing to answer questions from a New Jersey crime commission, and Mike Miranda is too old, at 78, to want to wield top power. Eboli's murder gives the aging Carlo Gambino effective control of the Genovese family...
...reform rules. McGovern, knowing how badly he would need Daley's support to carry Illinois in November, had been pushing for a compromise that would seat both Daley's and Singer's delegates with i vote for each. But when Daley rejected that, McGovern's delegates were free to wield their newly confirmed power and, it may be, have their vengeance for Chicago, 1968. Daley and his slate were excluded?by 1,486.45 to 1,371.55. Daley was too prescient to give anyone the pleasure of seeing him thrown off the floor; he never came to Miami. The unseating...