Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural beauty and the way of life it fosters, are arriving. The populations of Washington, Oregon and Idaho have increased 15% during the past ten years (Florida rose 45%) and are expected to grow another 13% by 1985. More people mean a need for more jobs. Washington Congressman Mike McCormack sums up the development-v.-conservation dilemma: "One man's conservation is all too frequently another man's unemployment...
...rate shaving is hurting foreign lines much more than it is the U.S. merchant fleet, whose share of world commerce has long been dwindling anyway. Not surprisingly, condemnation of Soviet tactics is widespread among shipowners. In the U.S., James Barker, chairman of the Moore-McCormack Lines and head of the National Maritime Council, is livid. "In effect, the Soviets are dumping by their price cutting, while there is no serious coordinated policy in Washington," he charges. Managing Director Carl-Thomas Hubrich of the Deutsche Afrika-Linien in Hamburg laments: "We're still there, but our backs...
...West High were so excited by the attention that they made TIME'S coverage the subject of a school-paper story. McGrath and Boston Correspondent Marlin Levin, who attended classes and talked to students and teachers at Medford High, experienced a similar reception. Says Levin: "Headmaster William McCormack opened the doors to us and said, 'Here it is, go where you want to go, write what you see. This, for better or for worse, is what...
...contrast, McCormack, 62, looks back fondly on his own teaching days, when he voluntarily wrote and directed school plays and put out the yearbook on his own time. "Now a man makes $1,495 a year for doing nothing more than putting out the yearbook,' he says. "I have no complaints today about paying for these services, but I think that something has been lost in the personal relationship...
...headmaster of the old school, down to his gray herringbone suit and rimless glasses, McCormack finds it difficult to keep tabs on his gargantuan school from his office in a converted second-floor storeroom. He blames Medford's problems mostly on the crowding produced when 1,100 freshmen were jammed in with the three upper classes?but not on any lack of spirit. Other principals might give up; not he. A giant blue and white button on his lapel broadcasts his philosophy. It is emblazoned MEDFORD PRIDE...