Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agile and retentive mind at work." Nation Editor Marshall Loeb, who edited the story, joined Carter on a campaign swing last January. "He was never glib," says Loeb. "He had a phenomenal grasp of the issues." Reporter-Researchers Eileen Chiu and Anne Hopkins steeped themselves in Carter's background and closely followed his progress through the year...
...gaze into my crystal ball, I see Harry Reasoner singing the news with Barbara Walters tap dancing in the background. His rendition of "Earthquake Kills Thousands" is No. 1 on the hit charts...
Hung Up. Barbara Jordan, the eloquent Texas Congress woman who could help satisfy Carter's pledges to both women and blacks by joining the Cabinet, was proving difficult to place. She announced that she wanted a job "consistent with my background" and seemed to have Attorney General in mind. Her interview with Carter last week was described as having gone poorly. Said one Jordan associate: "He did not feel comfortable with her." Although the job was not specifically offered, she ruled out consideration of the U.N. position, and her friends advised her to avoid HEW as being what...
...should still exist and be detectable with a sensitive radio antenna. By a serendipitous coincidence, in the same year Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Laboratories were using just such an antenna to listen to radio waves from the Milky Way. They had been puzzled by a faint background noise that seemed to be coming evenly from all parts of the sky. When they heard about Dicke's work, however, and compared the frequency and intensity of their radiation with his predictions, the mystery faded. Like radio listeners pulling out of the night the signal of a faraway...
...Carter was faced with the decision of whether to overlook the legal credentials needed for Justice and pick someone like Patricia Harris, a black lawyer from Washington, or Barbara Jordan, or perhaps a black federal judge from Pennsylvania, Leon Higgenbotham, who has extensive legal experience but little management background. The FBI choice posed a different challenge. Mondale, especially, urged that the FBI have a director from outside Justice, a man with few ties to Carter or his staff. Said Mondale: "We need a tough, hardheaded civilian to rehabilitate that place...