Word: mcpherson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overheated ocean waters destroyed about one-half of that nation's normal commercial fishing catch. Winds, waves and storms smashed California beaches last winter, while Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, southern Africa and southern India all suffered from drought. "A year of natural catastrophe," says M. Peter McPherson, director of the U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency, which has provided $60 million in emergency aid to flooded Andean nations...
...author's creative life. But even the less effective selections are interesting, and the artistry of most of this work makes it an evocative elegy for a darkly beautiful region, and for the haunting struggles of the lives which unfold there. The edition includes a foreword by James Alan McPherson and an afterward by John Casey, writers with whom Pancake worked at the University of Virginia. The give us an idea of the talented troubled man who wrote these stories and tactfully offer a few hints to the mystery of his suicide. They confirm what the stories have already shown...
...following Reagan's address, the networks provided the Democrats with time to reply, but their response was oblique at best. At a cost of $120,000, they put on a 28-min. film, filled with razzle-dazzle graphics and tightly edited statements. The program, narrated by Lawyer Harry McPherson (see box), was prepared days before the President gave his speech and thus reflected little of Reagan's effort to achieve bipartisan unity. It argued, not all that persuasively, that the Democrats are brimming with alternative programs. "It's time we put up or shut up," said Senator...
They considered Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore and Warren Beatty before deciding an actor was not quite right for the role. Still in search of a narrator for their film responding to Reagan's speech, the Democrats turned to Harry McPherson. Harry...
...right voice. The right appearance. No baggage. And he told a good story," said California Congressman Tony Coelho, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. A prominent politician had been ruled out, since one could not be chosen without offending others. McPherson, 53, who in the 1960s held posts in the Department of State and served as special counsel to President Johnson, was an obscure but credible figure. What does the Texas-born lawyer make of his stardom? Shrugged he: "A friend told me that older citizens need their own sex symbols...