Word: worke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week. Carter flew south to inspect the damage wreaked on the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Frederic. Arriving in Mobile, Ala., outfitted in work boots to combat the mud, he pledged that the Government would supply mobile homes for people who have been forced out of their own residences...
...ever before. To some extent, his politics are out of sync with current conservative trends. His ability to lead is untested and taken on faith. Yet supporting his candidacy is the irrepressible Kennedy mystique, the lingering regret for the assassination of his two brothers, his own hard, near obsessive work in the Senate, where he is rated one of the most distinguished members, and the voters' yearning for "leadership." Even if he is a man of considerable contradictions, that is true of the national mood as well...
...These people labored under the notion that if we were sufficiently lovable, others would be drawn to us. Our young had so much security in the postwar world that they felt it was the order of nature, that nothing needed to be done to preserve it. It does not work that way. There must be respect, even tinged with fear...
...successor. And I don't know why everybody is in doubt. The members of the permanent Batasang Pambansa will be elected again in 1984. They will help to decide who the Prime Minister is all over again. Now if all those people want to change me, they can work for that particular goal...
...improvisational talent, what he called "the amateur spirit." He defined it as the "sense of wonder, adventure and fun" that animated TIME from the start. He was endlessly accessible-the unphoniest man I ever met," recalls PEOPLE Magazine Publisher Richard Durrell. He liked and admired those who came to work for TIME; he treated them to an abundance of his intelligent attention and personal warmth. He was also an exceptionally alert recruiter of new talent. Remembers Heiskell: "He was terribly proud of bringing up people, making them into something." Among his discoveries were James Agee, who became TIME...