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Vellucci remembered that in 1946, he supported Michael J. Neville, a former Cambridge mayor, in the 11th District race for the House of Representatives seat. But in every election after that, Vellucci said, he counted himself as an ardent Kennedy backer...
Unemployment also helped pave the trail for Democratic gubernatorial victories, particularly that of former Peace Corps Director Richard Celeste in Ohio. His opponent, Congressman Clarence Brown, was an ardent backer of Reaganomics, not the most popular philosophy in a state where 13.8% of the work force is idle. A wave of discontent from the depressed steel towns of western Pennsylvania almost deprived Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh of what was supposed to be an easy reelection. New Jersey Businessman Frank Lautenberg hammered away at Reaganomics to help overcome Republican Millicent Fenwick's personal popularity and win a Senate seat...
...publicly denied being a "wimp," though no one, not even Republican Incumbent "Big Jim" Thompson, 46, ever accused him of being one. At the same time, Thompson, seeking an unprecedented third term, was hurt early on by Illinois' faltering farm and industrial economy, his overly ardent support of Reagan, and revelations that he had accepted valuable gifts from constituents and people doing business with the state. In recent weeks, however, he has bounced back, solidifying his support among both the Republican Party faithful and disaffected Democrats. Statewide polls put him 14 points ahead of Stevenson, a former two-term...
Through Susan's ardent temperament and acerbic tongue, Hare has his say on the duplicities of politics, the hypocrisies of business and the corruptive universal worship of Mammon. When Susan enters a loveless match with a middle-level diplomat (Edward Herrmann), Hare seizes his chance to lay down a carnal barrage on a Foreign Office bureaucracy requiring 6,000 men to dismantle an empire that it took 600 men to govern...
...Night and Day, Jackson has toned down the music, but the message becomes more lucid. Jackson presents himself as an inspired and controlled artist. No longer does he seem to try to intimidate. A man of many guises, he now sometimes finds his ardent sentimentalism hard to suppress and discards his formerly steadfast bitterness. In Night and Day, Jackson has combined his many sides to produce his most entertaining, musically satisfying and emotionally gratifying work to date...