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After it was clear that Badillo had lost, Nardelli sat in the backroom of his club with the captains discussing what they should do next. Nardelli quickly convinced them that they had to support Beame...
...sentimental atavist there is passion in his every word. A bundle of fresh caricatures, Smitty can sound like a disgruntled Confederate general, or like William Loeb, the publisher of the Manchester Union Leader who expresses his most exquisite right-wing rage in capital letters. A gossip columnist, a backroom politician, a muckraking Galahad of journalism -- he conjures up images of a fierce American brashness that are endearing and real. Also, and less successfully, he is an echo of a literary past, a Hemingway, a Hawthorne, a Melville, a Twain. This whole side of the book, from the first sentence ("Call...
French voters knew from past experience that the final outcome would be determined to a considerable degree in eleventh-hour backroom political trading. While they argued, the Gaullists reiterated the theme once stated by Andre Malraux: "There is only us and the Communists." As Party Secretary Peyrefitte elaborated last week, the Communists would eventually dominate the leftist coalition and then do their best to "overthrow the French government and the whole of French society...
...college selling vacuum cleaners. We see Barnes the young candidate defeating a powerful opponent with a door-to-door campaign, then quickly rising to the House Speakership. And finally, we see Barnes as lieutenant governor, concerned with presenting as "progressive" image to the public, while engaging in the same backroom politics as Smith and Mutscher...
...Telephone and Telegraph Corp. is the multibillion-dollar firm that quietly agreed to put up at least $100,000 to help finance this year's Republican National Convention, and shortly thereafter negotiated a controversial settlement in a classic antitrust case. But Geneen's interests scarcely run to backroom politics. By concentrating on business to the exclusion of almost everything else, including personal life, Geneen has built ITT into the eighth largest U.S.-based industrial concern and the biggest of all multinational conglomerates...