Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proud of Joe because he is a politician and I'm proud that I'm a politician." Thus Senator Howard Baker, 53, sounded one of his main campaign themes last week at a dinner given by New York's Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph Margiotta. Hands in his pockets, exuding an easy sincerity, the Senate minority leader gave an apt demonstration of the down-home-style politics that he hopes will carry him to the presidency. Last week he became the ninth Republican to declare his candidacy...
...tragedy came at a time of increasing tension in central North Carolina because of aggressive activity by the Klan. The racist organization has recently been challenged by a dogmatic Maoist group, the Workers Viewpoint Organization. It has perhaps 200 members, most of them in Los Angeles and New York City but a dozen or so in the Greensboro and Durham areas. In July two of the leftists showed up at a Klan rally in tiny China Grove, N.C., where they banged on doors, burned a Confederate flag, and got into fistfights with Klansmen...
Wrong. John Updike, self-appointed myth-maker of the New York and Boston bedroom community, menacingly shakes a coffee cup and a lone sock at you and growls, "You don't have problems. You have PROBLEMS. BIG PROBLEMS. And they all MEAN SOMETHING. Every coffee stain on the dining room table, every trip to the vet for the family dog's shots, every play in the Little League baseball game. And I," Updike goes on, "am here to bore into each one with my unrelenting literary jackhammer. I will drill until I hit vast and oceanic symbolism...
...would probably be similar to those the UAW has formed with G.M. in certain manufacturing plants. In Quality of Working Life (QWL) programs, additional training, improvements in the work environment, and committee systems have formed the basis of a new atmosphere of union-management co-operation. At Tarrytown, New York and elsewhere the QWL programs have apparently turned hostile working environments into more productive, harmonious factories...
...Broadway with the original cast for 549 performances, before Hughes decided to take the show on tour--"New York isn't the only place where people want to see theater...