Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ineffectual White House. Draft-Kennedy movements are springing up everywhere, some of them led by former Carter supporters, and Kennedy's own elated staff members are beginning to jockey for positions in the would-be, might-be, soon-to-be campaign. Says an enthusiastic aide to California Senator Alan Cran- ston, the Senate whip and a top member of the Democratic establishment: "Everybody in California is just sitting and waiting for Kennedy. He has the Machinists Union, the United Auto Workers and the Beverly Hills crowd. What else is there...
...wild pitches are common; stealing is easy because the catcher is busy netting a butterfly. Rare indeed is the knuckleball catcher who makes it through a season without injury: last month Braves Catcher Bruce Benedict dislocated a finger pursuing one of Phil's pitches and Houston's Alan Ashby is now out of the lineup with a finger fractured by one of Joe's floaters. Ashby's catching technique when Niekro is on the mound: "You just get in front of the ball and pray. It's like trying to catch a falling piece...
Sponsors of the legislation, though, are convinced large price increases are unnecessary. "Poppycock," snorts McLean, adding that a report due to be released soon by Alan Nairn, a Ralph Nader employee, will show ETS is able to absorb the cost increases and a lot more. "We just don't believe they have any justification," Arty Malkin, a NYPIRG lobbyist, says. The Nairn report, five years in the writing, may also shed light on some other areas of the ETS operation, including some of the more basic questions about the adequacy of the exams...
...they expect somebody else to pick up the bill." Pertec Computer Chairman Ryal Poppa warns, "Soon the Government will be asking us why we complain when they want to regulate our businesses if we're so willing to accept their help when we are in trouble." Economist Alan Greenspan finds a Government bailout wrong on principle, wrong because it would be granted not to any troubled company but only to a large one, and wrong because it would not protect jobs. Says he: "All it would do would be to freeze people into jobs without a future...
MALICE AND AMBITION do not adhere to Alan Alda's face. Alda the screenwriter forgot that Alda the actor looks like a waiter in Chinatown begging for a big tip--his squinting, ever-genial countenance belies the selfish, insatiable drive that defines his hero, Senator-on-the-make Joe Tynan. The words of the screenplay may fit, but Alda can't take up the Nice Man's Burden: Hawkeye can't play Macbeth...