Word: blanton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profiles of the candidates were written by: Thomas S. Blanton, David N. Carvalho, Stephen J. Chapman, James J. Cramer, Henry Griggs, David B. Hilder, Thomas W. Janes, Daniel E. Larkin and Charles E. Shepherd...
...Blanton is enthused about some short films showing at Off the Wall (see above) and he claims it's worth the wall over there. Show times are 4:30 ($1), 7:30, 10, and, on Saturday, midnight (all $2). A little closer to home, at the Carpenter Center, there's a free showing tonight of Independent Experimental Animated Films. The title sounds a bit pretentious, but the films have names like divine miracle and jabberwocky. What can you lose...
TENNESSEE'S RAY BLANTON, 44, a roughhewn, former Democratic Congressman in the populist tradition, found himself matched against one of the few attractive young Republicans to emerge in 1974: Lamar Alexander, 34, a lawyer who had helped Senator Howard Baker and retiring Governor Winfield Dunn win elections. Alexander's main problem turned out to be general dissatisfaction with Dunn's Republican administration, which had doubled the size of the budget to $2 billion and presented the state's eastern region with a prison instead of the medical school it had wanted. All this, plus a strong...
Tennessee, Raymond Blanton...
ALEXANDER v. BLANTON If Republican Lamar Alexander, 34, is worried about trailing Democrat Leonard Ray Blanton, 44, in the Tennessee gubernatorial race, he is the last one to show concern. Seasoned political observers are scratching their heads over his studied coolness in the face of possible defeat. But they figured that he must know what he is doing. He managed the successful campaigns of both Senator Howard Baker and Governor Winfield Dunn. Two weeks before Alexander won the primary for Governor, he was considered to be running a poor third. His forte is catching...