Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spots is battering the ears of New Hampshire voters. Gerald Ford: "He is the only Republican who can win in November." Ronald Reagan: "He will provide the strong new leadership America needs." Jimmy Carter: "A calm voice in a sea of shouters." Mo Udall: "The Democrat for President." Birch Bayh: "It takes a good politician to make a good President." Which pitch will set this year's perhaps unprecedented numbers of undecided voters to humming the candidate's tune? First in New Hampshire next Tuesday, then a week later in Massachusetts and a week after that in Florida...
...Governor Jimmy Carter, a Democratic contender, is peppered with the question time and again. Though he personally opposes abortion, he supports the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing it-but some critics claim he had been ambiguous before the Iowa precinct caucuses (see PRESS). On the stump, Indiana's Birch Bayh is plagued by anti-abortion demonstrators who decry his leadership last year in the Senate against a constitutional amendment that would have outlawed most abortions. Sargent Shriver does not favor overturning the Supreme Court decision, but proposes setting up "life-support" centers to counsel women seeking abortions on whether...
...only last week). Similarly, by not removing the $1,000 limit on individual campaign contributions, the court eliminated the possibility that a candidate could rely solely on a handful of fat cats-as Harris and John Lindsay did in 1972. One candidate who could use some fat cats is Birch Bayh, who is having financial problems...
...case of Democratic Senator Birch Bayh illustrates how a candidate's chances for success in 1976 can be shaped by the new rules on fund raising. "The thing we were watching the court for," says Bayh's finance director, Myer Feldman, "the thing that would have changed the entire nature of the campaign, was a ruling that would have lifted the limit on contributions. It's that $1,000 limit that has caused the problems...
...Senator Birch Bayh, 48. Evidence of abnormality in right lung is attributed to histoplasmosis, a fungal infection, but his doctor advises "continued monitoring." Suffers irritation of sciatic nerve in both thighs and "functionally insignificant heart murmur." General physical condition "excellent...