Word: backers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard previously a high official in related agricultural research state privately his impression that Lawrence Rockefeller was an enthusiastic backer of the green revolution primarily because it serves American interests by 'cooling down' discontent in Third World countries. So during the talk I asked the administrator why he thought Rockefeller was so interested in the green revolution. He paused for a moment, finally answering that Lawrence was a 'great man'--whereupon everyone laughed...
...advised public relations scheme that included a costly television flop (Republicans Are People Too) seemed to ensure her early departure. But the gentle mother of three and grandmother of five proved to have staying power. When the convention is called to order at 10:30 a.m. next Monday, Ford backer Mary Louise Smith, a native of Eddyville, Iowa, will be wielding the gavel...
...Tennessee, former Democratic State Chairman James Sasser, 39, plucked the nomination away from favored John J. Hooker Jr., 45, a Nashville lawyer and businessman. Sasser, also a Nashville lawyer, was an early backer of Jimmy Carter, and had the support of blacks and labor. He won 44% of the vote to Hooker's 31 % and is considered a serious threat to incumbent Republican Senator William Brock...
...Lawyer Sheldon Schecter, 49: "We feel so deeply about Mo. It hurts that he's being kind of ignored." Before pledging support, Schecter wants clearer declarations of Carter's positions on national health insurance, right-to-work laws and the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Bill. Another Udall backer, Ellen Kozak, 25, a Milwaukee attorney, is not pleased with Carter, but she is realistic. "We don't have anywhere else to go." More than that, whatever his strengths and weaknesses with the diverse ideological and ethnic blocs, Jimmy Carter had closed the door to none...
...guess we'll go right into the convention without a candidate," sighs Robert Hughes, Republican chairman of Ohio's populous Cuyahoga County. Why? "Purists," says Ford Backer Hughes. "They want their view of a conservative candidate. And it doesn't much matter whether...