Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shirt, Kennedy is on the podium in the Sheraton's grand ballroom. He has been working on his address until the last moment, and sometimes he stumbles over the notes in the margins, but he is one of the most effective stump speakers in the country, and his vigorous attack on Jimmy Carter comes through loud and clear. Though he does not mention the President by name, the words leader and leadership keep recurring, 17 times in all. This is Ted Kennedy's main theme, tonight and in the long months ahead. Scoffing at Carter's suggestion that the Government...
...dedicate the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Boston on Oct. 20. They had held off until then because the Senator did not want the ceremony to be turned into a political event?a grace note that somehow was not communicated to his nephew Joe, who made a fiery attack on the Carter Administration's energy and economic policies. That day, at a strategy session, Kennedy's top advisers made plans for a money-raising blitz that will qualify him for federal campaign matching funds within a week's time. This requires raising $5,000 in gifts...
...White House strategy is to hit Kennedy early and hard. Last week Carter used ridicule to attack Kennedy. Said the President, at a dinner for supporters: "I asked my mama. She said it was O.K. My wife, Rosalynn, said she'd be willing to live in the White House for four more years." The point, said a Carter operative, is to test whether Kennedy has "the stomach to go through the humiliating, deflating experience of fighting for the nomination." Says another Carter aide of Kennedy: "He's going to get clawed. He's going to bleed, and then...
DIED. John K. Jessup, 72, chief writer of LIFE's editorial page for 22 years; of a heart attack; in Wilton, Conn. In 1935 Jessup was hired by Time Inc. Founder Henry R. Luce as a writer for FORTUNE. Five years later he took charge of TIME's business section, and in 1944 moved on to LIFE, where he presided over the only regular editorial page among Time Inc. publications. In that role, he wrote endorsements of seven presidential candidates and assessments of three wars. After his retirement in 1969, Jessup published The Ideas of Henry Luce...
...interior designer will tell you that green and orange clash and yesterday was no exception as Princeton and Dartmouth used completely different playing strategies. A strong wind, however, stifled the Big Green's kick-and-run attack while allowing the skillful Tigers to control ground play and secure...