Word: bateman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to get people to read at no matter what level." The Dallas public library lends games and dress patterns in low-income neighborhoods. Some libraries even lend gerbils and hamsters, as well as hedge trimmers and posthole diggers-a development that often upsets traditionalists. Sniffs Mrs. Chebie Bateman, library director for Columbus, Miss.: "I believe in furnishing the books and letting the hardware store furnish the tools...
...little to crow about, but not much to complain about either. They split the two gubernatorial races. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne, whose self-effacing campaign style consists of a strained smile and straight-arm salute, came from way behind to swamp Republican State Senator Ray Bateman, who tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord's Prayer sound like...
...Howell was his own worst enemy in Virginia, Republican Ray Bateman precipitated the re-election of Governor Byrne in New Jersey. Byrne had become a most unpopular figure (last April, according to a Rutgers University poll, only 17% of New Jerseyans thought he was doing a good job), and his lifeless image led many Democrats to dub him "one-term Byrne." But in order to win the Republican nomination, Bateman had to carry the conservative vote, which he did by strongly opposing the state income tax, and that position gave Byrne a chance to go on the offensive. The Governor...
TRENTON. N.J.--Democratic Gov. H. Brendan Byrne was re-elected last night. Byrne defeated Republican candidate Raymond H. Bateman, a state senator...
...polls has narrowed, both candidates have imported big-name backers across state lines?including, in Bateman's case, the peripatetic Liz Taylor. The same day that Rosalynn Carter was saying, "Brendan, we need you," in southern New Jersey, former President Gerald Ford appeared upstate in Morris County. Still the same old Jerry, he told the crowd: "I'm glad to be here to help you get Ray Bateman elected Governor of Michigan." To which Bateman responded, "Thank you, but I'm having enough trouble in New Jersey...