Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Record Year. General Motors officials said that 1977 could be a record year, with car sales hitting 11.25 million, slightly ahead of this year. Bank loans have shown an upturn, indicating renewed business demand. Though reports on Christmas sales are conflicting, merchants at least hope they will wind up with a gain. Says James Lutz, executive vice president of Chicago-based Montgomery Ward: "The weather is with us, and we're going to have the best Christmas ever...
...least ten of the 46 senior fellows at the Brookings Institution are assisting Carter in the takeover and some will land jobs in his Administration. Those who have worked with Carter include Charles Schultze, Budget Director under Johnson, who may wind up in Carter's Cabinet; Henry Owen, onetime chief of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, who is a foreign affairs specialist for Carter; and Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, who may head up Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. Then, too, there is Robert Roosa, chairman of the Brookings board...
...audience inside, sheltered from the sub-zero wind-chill cold that the protesters endured, didn't seem to believe that, though. Most politely applauded Colby when he finished. They listened patiently when he explained the necessity for gathering information about other countries. They did not offer dissent when he said that he tried to reform the CIA in 1973, before the sensational revelations about assassinations of foreign leaders, deals with Mafia hit-men, domestic spying...
Darwin was described by the great American golf writer Herbert Warren Wind as "a man of exceptional ability and enormous personal charm." In fact, the enduring sobriquets Darwin lent to his contemporaries and the anecdotes that surround his own career would alone be enough to fill a volume...
...Wind recounts how "at the Commonwealth Tournament, at St. Andrews, in 1955, for example, his aesthetic sense was appalled by a sweater with a repeating pattern of loud, clashing yellow, pink, black green and violet vertical stripes, which one of the Canadian players wore. Darwin kept himself well under control for a while, but finally went up to the Canadian and asked, 'I say, are those your old school colors or your own unfortunate choice...