Word: flacks
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Millionaire Milton J. Shapp, a Democrat, revolves around the problem of where to get the needed revenues, and Broderick begins his speeches by declaring: "I am the candidate who is against a personal income tax." Shapp hinted early on that he was agreeable to such a tax, but the flack was so heavy that he has since vacillated. Shapp's polls show him far ahead, but political experts see the race as extremely close. Hitting hard the law-and-order theme, Republicans will flood the state with brochures claiming that Shapp helped bail out Chicago convention demonstrators, which Shapp...
Specifically, he is a secret Jew, fear ful of exposure, who holds one of the most ambiguous pseudo jobs ever dissembled by the mind of organization man. He clips murder stories from news papers for a homicide bureau in a large Eastern city. Neither true dick nor full flack, he keeps his gun at the office and carries a "badgette" rather than the big tin of real homicide...
Bill Woestendiek, the newsman fired by Washington's WETA-TV because his wife was hired to flack for Martha Mitchell, has a new job as editor-publisher of the Colorado Springs Sun. Wife Kay will join him as women's editor, leaving Martha in the lurch. That will hardly bother the Woes-tendieks' new boss, Vegas-based Publisher Hank Greenspun. After Mrs. Mitchell's famous call asking the Arkansas Gazette to "crucify" Senator Fulbright for his Carswell vote, Greenspun wrote an editorial suggesting that she made the call after "toasting the ill health of every Communist...
...spite of all the flack, the SST program last week received a substantial boost when the House Appropriations Committee approved the $290 million requested for further development. Congress, reflecting on the millions already sunk into the aircraft, may well vote for continued, if reduced funding. But whether the SST will, in the words of Halaby, "turn the Atlantic into a river and the Pacific into a lake," or turn both into an ecological quagmire, remains to be seen. At about $40 million per plane (v. $23 million per jumbo jet), the U.S. SST has also left many people wondering whether...
...book editor, invokes Freeman and his long-suffering family with subtlety. Their relations with one another, it turns out, are also bad debts. His wife Ann, sexually and emotionally little more than an object of Freeman's consumption, has left him. His son Caxton, a conniving p.r. flack for a top political candidate, helps support his father-primarily because of the embarrassment the old man could cause by showing up in Washington. Freeman's cousin Gerrish, a money-mad but bumbling lawyer, acts as an unwilling buffer between the members of this emotionally bankrupt group...