Word: wynne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jubilant Yasser Arafat projected an image of satisfaction and optimism as he talked with TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn after the Rabat summit last week. The P.L.O. leader was not wearing his customary checkered kaffiyeh and dark glasses, but was dressed in an olive-drab military uniform and had a small pistol strapped to his belt. Over mint-flavored tea and pastries in the white guest villa that Morocco's King Hassan had provided him, Arafat smiled and chuckled often, his quick, jerky gestures reflecting boundless energy. Tired? Not at all, he said. "I only get tired when...
...either side has turned bluntly threatening. In an interview for French television, Sadat warned that "either Israel comes to reason in the Geneva talks or we shall be returning to war again." Lieut. General Mohamed Abdel Ghany Gamassy, Sadat's chief of staff, told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Cairo last week that Egypt's armed forces are in better shape now than before the October...
...gifts have been snagged: the reactors cannot be provided until a complicated question of inspection is resolved, while foreign aid allotment has been stalled by a foot-dragging pro-Israel Senate. "If Kis singer cannot deliver even on those pe ripheral matters," one Sadat aide told TIME'S Wynn last week, "can we ex pect him to deliver on the really big issue, the peace settlement...
...load its lineup with powerful young sluggers and provide an excellent pitching staff that won more than 100 games this year. The LA starting lineup reads like an All-Star roster for the year 1974. Steve Garvey batted .312 as he collected 200 hits and 21 home runs. Jim Wynn led the team in homers (32) and helped power the Dodgers to the NL pennant. Bill Russell, the write-in All-Star at short, and Davey Lopes carried the big bats for LA down the stretch at the end of summer...
...there is that note of redeeming social value to contend with. Screen writer Wynn (son of Keenan, grandson of Ed) has in the person of the warden wickedly parodied every businessman who ever exhorted his sales force with sporting metaphors, every overstuffed daddy who has lived out his fantasies of athletic glory by impersonating Vince Lombardi on a Little League field. The difference here is that the man has real guns, real power to extend and with hold favors. He is a genuinely frightening cautionary figure. It is too bad that the lessons his behavior might teach are often lost...