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...days later it still galls us to pen the results of that encounter. We'll grant you that pro wrestling's been around a while. After all, you don't become America's most popular sport overnight. True, wrestling was the first program ever broadcast on television; true, both Winston Churchill and Plato were wrestlers, and with minds like that behind you, you can get into some pretty complicated legal technicalities. But all that we're asking is that when you're got rules, you apply them fairly...
Limited Expertise. To a man with suspicions of the bureaucracy, heaven is operating from 30,000 ft. in the air. On this African shuttle, Kissinger relied on eight aides. Some-Winston Lord, head of Kissinger's Policy Planning Staff at State, Peter Rodman, a longtime aide, and Larry Eagleburger, Deputy Under Secretary for Management-have been with him almost from the beginning. Another, Harold Saunders, is a Middle East expert whom Kissinger likes to have on hand in case of an emergency...
...term has infiltrated the language, carrying nuances not found in Fowler's Modern English Usage, shadings understood instinctively by Southerners but often baffling to armchair linguists beyond the Mason-Dixon line. TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angela, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., wrote this report on what is-and is not-a good...
...recently as a generation ago, a job for a woman was unthinkable in most upper-and middle-class Southern white homes. Today, with urbanization, feminism, television and sheer economic pinch all playing a part, it is routine. Lynn McColl, 38, of Winston-Salem, became a schoolteacher when financial misfortune struck her family in the late '60s. "Now it's not essential that I work -except to me," she says. "My husband is very supportive. He is just a prince of a man." More and more, Southern women work as telephone linemen, ministers, welders, lawyers and executives. Barriers...
Died. Sir Winston Scott, 76, kind-hearted doctor who gave free medical care to the poor in Barbados and became the first native-born Governor-General of that country in 1967, six months after it gained independence; of an apparent heart attack; in Bridgetown, Barbados...