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...proposal: "They disgust me?all of them, including Albert Gore." Ken Rietz, a partner of Harry Treleaven, the political TV consultant, came from Washington to manage Brock's campaign. "We did not underestimate Gore," said Rietz. "We never assumed that he was a dead dove." Aside from an advertising blitz that easily outshone Gore's, the Brock forces established campaign organizations in every one of the state's 95 counties...
Then after Harvard had once again futilely pounded away at the Princeton defense for three downs, the Tigers took over and worked back to the Crimson 22. This time Brad Fenton blew in on a corner back blitz and nailed the Tigers' Rod Plummer for a-15 yard loss...
When it happened, Nixon was nearly at the end of his three-week, 22-state political blitz of 1970. He appeared with...
...police and militiamen swept through Quebec in a week-long blitz that involved 1600 raids and bagged more than 375 prisoners, it became clear that the government was carrying out a well-coordinated strategy of political terror. Very few of those arrested could be directly linked to the FLQ; most were a broad assortment of politicians, labor leaders and other public figures who sympathized with the underground terrorist group but did not endorse its activities...
...contrast, Chaban-Delmas, a World War II Resistance hero, conducted a cool, low-key campaign. He hardly hit the hustings, concentrating instead on a few polite dinners and speeches. At the height of the J-J S-S blitz, Chaban-Delmas picked up the pace, but only a bit. Undoubtedly he figured his past popularity and present eminence would pull him through...