Word: alerts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fool's Sold. Thanks to alert leadership in a growing number of states, during the past five years fully one-third of the nation's 4,000,000 4-H members have been signed up in cities; another third now live in "nonfarm" suburban areas. Youngsters producing blue ribbon bread and corn still exist, but their numbers are declining. "We used to put more emphasis on the chicken than on the child," says Indiana State Leader Edward L. Frickey. "Now we put the blue ribbon...
...other one up." ? After dining by themselves that night, the Americans rejoined the Chinese to work out the communique. On Sunday, there was a final meeting and a farewell lunch. The Americans departed at 1 p.m. Kissinger's appearance reflected his success. When he returned from Peking, an alert observer might have noticed that the man who was supposedly suffering from a stomach ailment had put on five pounds. According to White House wits, Kissinger was so impressed by the meals in Peking that he jested: "A guest of the state must have starved to death 3,000 years...
Beneath the patina of the published papers, other images form from those turbulent days. Early on, there was the alert, trim Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara sitting at his huge Pershing desk, the believer of 1963, the man who thought it could be done and who kept saying "Things are getting better." Then, gray and pinched in 1967, trying to explain why he had become the first to turn publicly against the war. There was his tall, taut Assistant Secretary, John McNaughton, now dead, sweeping confident eyes across the map of the world and talking fast, very fast. Speaking ever...
Triple Trailers. The same shadow game is played aloft, but there are very special rules. Soviet TU-16 Badger bombers with Egyptian markings fly out of Cairo West airbase to follow the Sixth Fleet and look for Polaris submarines. Whenever they get near the U.S. carriers, a "fastback alert" is sounded, and Phantom jets are catapulted off the carriers to keep the Badgers from getting too close. The Phantoms always approach gradually and at an angle, sometimes drawing abreast of the Soviet planes. On one such occasion, a Phantom pilot was surprised to see his Soviet counterpart hold...
Washington, Stay Home. Both sides want the Government to take a less active role than usual in their negotiations. The Council of Economic Advisers' "inflation alert" last month, which specifically mentioned steel and called for a declining wage trend, angered the ordinarily cool Abel. Steelmakers, far from rejoicing at the admonition, reasoned that it could only antagonize labor and make their negotiations tougher. Says one company bargainer: "I wish to God that the White House would stay out of this one and give us a chance, just once, to negotiate among ourselves...