Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four-page newsletter mailed to his constituents last fall, California Democrat John V. Tunney used the words "I" or "the Senator" 25 times on the first page, 64 times in all. Among politicians, that is not excessive or unusual. But Republican Congressman Alphonzo Bell, who is running for Tunney's seat this year, complained to the Senate Select Committee on Standards and Conduct that the Senator was abusing his franking privilege to promote his reelection...
...committee did not consider Bell's claim, but by a unanimous vote decided that senatorial vanity was indeed exceeding the bounds of modesty. Henceforth, ruled the committee, the pronouns "I," "he" and "his," as well as "the Senator" or the word "Senator" followed by the officeholder's name, may occur no more than five times per page on franked newsletters...
That prospect is certainly making his rivals squirm. Some analysts expect Wallace could win as much as 25% of the Massachusetts vote (assuring him a quarter of the state's 104 delegates to the National Convention). As Wallace put it last week to TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell, "A lot of chickens I talked about for years have come to roost in Boston. They're roostin' all over in Detroit and San Diego and even some in Boston...
...Israel's ports for passage of Arab goods, of its hospitals for the treatment of Arab sick and its research institutes for the training of Arab students. As in an earlier speech in Philadelphia-where he took his text from the biblical inscription on the Liberty Bell*-Rabin quoted from American heroes, including Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Twain and Jonas Phillips, a Jewish soldier who fought in the Revolutionary...
...DANIEL BELL...