Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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From Los Angeles, TIME Bureau Chief Don Neff gives this impressionistic account of the California Democratic senatorial primary campaign and John Tunney's triumph...
...argued that there was more than braggadocio connecting the mayor and the mob. Addonizio, the Government said, had left a safe congressional seat to make "a million dollars" as mayor and then set about doing it by getting the mob to force city contract kickbacks into a secret bank account. That, replied the indignant mayor, was "the most fantastic story" and a case of "political persecution...
...miracle spray also kills helpful birds and insects, can sicken farm workers, and has been known to contaminate mothers' milk. Last November the Federal Government decided to phase out all but "essential uses" of DDT by next December. As a first step, it "canceled" four specific uses that account for 35% of the U.S.'s annual consumption. Yet manufacturers still produce as much DDT as ever: 100 million lbs. per year, 20% of which is sold...
...Ball. To anyone who ever lived in a college dorm or an Army barracks, Bouton's tales are not all that scandalous. Bowie Kuhn and the players aside, fans will find Ball Four a fast, flip and often funny account of the author's struggle to stay in the big leagues as a knuckleballing pitcher after losing his high hard one (Bouton won 21 games for the Yankees of 1963). To be sure, he gets his digs in along the way. He tells of Mantle showing up for a game "hung over out of his mind" and pushing...
...getting into the act by defacing offending ads in buses, subways and on billboards with stickers proclaiming, THIS AD INSULTS WOMEN, Or THIS EXPLOITS WOMEN. Admen like to hold by formulas that they consider successful. But some executives in the business believe that they ultimately will have to take account of the feminine protest. "In advertising," says Dr. Robert Wachsler, a psychologist on the BBDO staff, "we will have to show women less as women and more as people...