Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford's most important stop was with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at an isolated compound of wooden and concrete dachas amid oak, birch and pine trees about 15 miles north of Vladivostok, home port for the Soviet Pacific fleet. Soon after reaching the camp by special train from the military airfield where Air Force One had landed, Ford and Brezhnev sat down in a conference room overlooking Amur Bay for talks that lasted all afternoon, into the evening and part of the next morning...
Americans for Democratic Action, the John Birch Society, the Urban League, the Congress for Racial Equality and the National Council of Churches...
...particular, the victories enhanced the potential presidential candidacies of three Senators who campaigned widely for the party: Mondale, Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas and Henry M. Jackson of Washington. Others from Congress who will be looked on as possibilities include Representative Morris K. Udall of Arizona, Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana and Senators-elect John Glenn of Ohio and Dale Bumpers of Arkansas. Several present and newly elected Governors will also be talked about as potential candidates, among them Brown, Carey, Daniel Walker of Illinois and George Wallace of Alabama...
...James Allen got 90% of the vote, Georgia's Herman Talmadge 75% and South Carolina's Ernest Boilings 71%. Other re-elected Democrats were George McGovern of South Dakota Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, Alan Cranston of California, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri Birch Bayh of Indiana, Frank Church of Idaho, Warren Magnuson of Washington, Mike Gravel of Alaska and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin...
...Chef has a no-nonsense attitude about her operation, which she revealed publicly for the first time last week. Says she: "I would certainly not pussyfoot around about having a radical because it's not worth it." Both Shirley Temple Black and Marvella Bayh, wife of Indiana Senator Birch Bayh, have made it equally clear that a mastectomy is less tragic than some believe...