Word: bailiwicks
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...essentially Nixon country, and although it contains pockets of Rockefeller sentiment, the leaders agreed that the risks would be far too large. Oregon Governor Tom McCall, who had earlier announced a write-in campaign for Rockefeller in his state, invited the New Yorker to challenge Nixon in his bailiwick, where Rockefeller beat Goldwater in 1964 and where Nixon is now vulnerable. Rockefeller and Nixon, said McCall, "are the best. If we had them, it would be a primary at its very best in a state that is a microcosm of the national election...
...post, lanky, greying Mary Switzer will administer $4.8 billion in federal funds, oversee 1,900 employees, and be responsible for aiding 7,600,000 Americans (nearly 4% of the population) who now receive welfare payments. Also included in her bailiwick: more than 6,000,000 needy who receive medical services through Medicaid, more than 600,000 children helped with adoption or foster care, 450,000 handicapped children receiving special medical services, more than 250-000 birth control recipients, and millions of elderly citizens...
...body is at last growing healthier and more robust. Westerners have long believed that, despite the Wall, Germans remained Germans, and that formal division of the country could not last forever. For 22 years, spade-bearded Ulbricht has worked to prove this hope wrong by trying to establish his bailiwick not only as a separate German state but as a nation distinct from West Germany in as many ways as possible. The fact is that he is beginning to have some success. Last week, as East Germany prepared for this month's quadrennial Socialist Unity Party Congress-which will...
...healthy society only if we join in a concerted effort to improve the quality of urban life." He recommended a new Department of Municipal Affairs, as well as new measures to combat air-and-water pollution and discrimination in jobs and housing. And New York's Rockefeller, whose bailiwick includes the nation's largest city, laid down the framework for a program designed to "improve the overall economic, physical, recreational and cultural climate of the central-city core areas...
...scholarship and taste, he personally deduced the origin of the rare Bury Saint Edmunds cross (TIME, June 19, 1964), purchased by the Met for $500,000. The young art historian rose to become curator of the Cloisters, the Met's medieval annex and Rorimer's former bailiwick. But before Hoving had the opportunity to effect great changes, he was tapped by New York's newly elected Mayor Lindsay, who appointed him Commissioner of Parks. Now, only one month after he was named New York's cultural czar and put in charge of all the city...