Word: unpopularity
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...House Appropriations Committee. Homely (to an opponent who accused him of being two-faced, Cannon once replied: "My God, if I had another face don't you think I'd use it?"), hunched (5 ft. 7 in., 142 Ibs.) Clarence Cannon is perhaps the House's most unpopular member, has had fist fights with at least three colleagues; Tennessee's equally terrible-tempered Senator, the late Kenneth McKellar, once threatened to gavel Cannon's head during a conference committee hearing. But he is also the House's hardest-working member (roughly, from 10 a.m. to midnight seven days a week...
...Unpopular Task. Frondizi won office with Peronista votes, and his first political instinct was to repay the favor with such spendthrift sops as massive wage rises. But Frondizi, son of an Italian immigrant roadbuilder, is a responsible lawyer and political economist, and he soon made a different choice. He swapped Peronista support for army backing and began the dangerous, unpopular job of making Argentina live within its means. First, he coolly downgraded the ineffectual, sacred-cow national oil monopoly, by inviting foreign oilmen to develop Argentina's petroleum resources. The first new well came in last week, beginning...
Wolverine. In Ann Arbor, University of Michigan coeds went on a food strike, listed eleven complaints-ten charging greasy food, unpopular dishes, bad cooking, etc., the eleventh complaining because there were no second helpings...
...longtime Parisian Gaullist last week. "The least we can say is that we are surprised and hurt," wailed the National Federation of Veteran Prisoners of War. Charles de Gaulle, by his actions last week, dramatically refuted those critics who say that he uses high-sounding rhetoric to avoid taking unpopular action...
...extension," Prime Minister Kishi announced tartly, "is now an accomplished fact." But at week's end, disturbed by the public unrest over his police legislation, Kishi took the unprecedented step of consulting his three elderly living predecessors. Their advice: quit trying to jam through the unpopular police bill...