Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vigorously denied the accusations; Leone's denial was weakened, however, by his close friendship with the brothers Ovidio and Antonio Lefebvre, who have been accused of serving as Lockheed's bagmen and are currently on trial in connection with the payoffs. In addition, the muckraking left-wing magazine L'Espresso raised serious questions about Leone's tax returns, especially on the amount of property tax he paid on a palatial $850,000 villa, called Le Rughe,* which he built 20 miles northwest of Rome...
...once in office he regularly supported social and civil rights legislation. He refused to endorse Barry Goldwater in 1964, and he opposed Richard Nixon's first two nominees to the Supreme Court. As he rose to ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, he continually upset the right wing of his party by such positions as early opposition to Viet Nam involvement and support of the Panama Canal treaties...
...stalwarts of his own party he had become a liberal anomaly. He knew that a hard core of party conservatives -30% or so-always opposed him on ideological grounds, making him vulnerable in a primary with a light turnout and a right-wing challenger. That was the formula for his defeat last week. In a race in which he did not even use television ads and spent little time away from his Senate duties-"Every poll and writer indicated that I would win handsomely," Case explains-he lost by 3,500 votes out of 233,000 to Bell, a relatively...
...keynote of the building is a kind of nobility and finesse that, one might have thought, were all but lost to architecture, there is nothing intimidating about the East wing. It is hospitable, welcoming both to art and to its audience, and condescending to no one. Neither snooty nor tackily populist, it is a lesson in civic good manners. "The aim of architecture is to build well. Well-building hath three conditions: commodity, firm ness and delight." Sir Henry Wotton's maxim is as true today as it was 350 years ago, and Pei's building reminds us that...
...Volvo's unions and the Norwegian parliament, the present firm will be dissolved and replaced by a holding company, called Volvo (Svenskt-Norskt) and composed of two divisions. The Swedish branch will have 60% of the shares and appoint six directors to the ten-seat board; the Norwegian wing will own 40% and name four board members. Owners of Volvo stock will be given shares in the Swedish operation; half of the shares of the new Norwegian branch will be sold to the public, with the rest going to the Norwegian government, which is expected to become the single...