Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...reason why the President-elect last week named Caspar Willard Weinberger, 63, to be Secretary of Defense. To some officials in Washington, "Cap the Knife" seemed an odd choice. The expenditure-cutting ax he wielded so zestfully first for Reagan in California and then for Nixon in Washington may gather some dust at the Pentagon, where Reagan plans a huge military buildup. Moreover, Weinberger's firsthand knowledge of weapons and military strategy apparently is confined to whatever he picked up poring over Defense Department budgets eight to ten years ago; his current views on those subjects will remain among...
...police opened fire on rioting workers in Baltic seaports, killing at least 49. "It really started here in 1970," says an intellectual in Gdansk. "After 1970, both sides behaved differently." Tuesday is the tenth anniversary of that fateful day, and hundreds of thousands of Poles were expected to gather outside Lenin Shipyard's main gate to honor the fallen workers by dedicating a 138-ft.-high monument with three steel-girder crosses on top. To the old men sitting 730 miles away in the Kremlin, that scene would be a disturbing one indeed...
...Harmony (Sesame Street/Warner Bros.). Various pop stars make the playroom rock, gently of course. The idea -a good one-was to gather some songs for kids and about kids that wouldn't reduce Mom and Dad to a gibbering frenzy. Producers Lucy Simon and David Levine recruited talent as diverse as Bette Midler, James Taylor, the Doobie Brothers, Linda Ronstadt, Lindy Waldman and Carly Simon (the co-producer's sister), and let them loose in the realms of whimsy. The results-especially by Taylor, Midler, and Dr. John in a duet with Libby Titus-are easy to take...
CHRISTMAS IS FOR MERRIMENT, a time for honest cheer, No time for gloomy prescience--a time for drinking beer. So gather with your colleagues, celebrate with friends, Keep the noise and music going till the party ends. And when those visions haunt you, of dangers and of doom. Close your eyes and think of things that might dispel the gloom. Think about the future, however it may fall, Think about the past--or, better, just don't think...
...front-wheel-drive subcompacts, the Ford Escort and the Mercury Lynx, are selling better. Ford has orders for 180,000 of them, and is expected to meet projected 1981 sales of 345,000. But Ford's larger cars, such as the Granada and the Mercury Cougar, continue to gather dust on show room floors. The company has already shut down plants in Atlanta and Chicago to reduce inventories of the slow-selling cars...