Word: bradley
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Lucas is the second black to win a major party's gubernatorial nomination; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat, lost in California four years ago, but is trying again this year. (The nation's only black Governor: Pinckney % Pinchback, who was Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana and served for a month when the incumbent was impeached in 1872.) Lucas, an outspoken and articulate conservative, will face a tough race this November against Democratic Governor James Blanchard...
...armored chassis in conjunction with lighter missiles carried by trucks. In building the Sergeant York, the Army had trouble deciding whether to arm it with missiles or guns. This time it chose both. FAAD would also include 50-cal. guns on M1 tanks and 25-mm cannons on Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. In theory, the elements would work together through a system of airborne and ground-based sensing devices...
...presidential hopefuls are arriving. They gorge on catastrophe. There is everybody to blame and no one responsible. Babbitt, Biden, Dole, Baker, Kemp, Bradley, Hart. They come like pallbearers in dark suits and white shirts and furrowed brows. It is plain that Iowa, uniquely distressed this summer because of its rural character (i.e., farms linked to small towns), will be the bloody ground on which the 1988 presidential nominations will be shaped...
...Basics. All the action can, of course, obscure the spirit that is being consecrated. Big wedding celebrations may have something to do with what Rabbi Murray I. Rothman of West Newton, Mass., calls "a resurgence of family feeling--and I consider the temple an extended family." Michael L. Bradley, executive secretary of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, wonders whether the resurgence "is religious or cultural. I'm inclined to think the catalyst may be cultural." And part of the consumer culture, at that. Many department stores now have computerized bridal registries and, reports Margaret McMillen of Bullocks Wilshire...
...Bradley is devoted to his family and adamantly insists on getting home by 7 p.m. to see his daughter Theresa Anne, 9. He is said to be reluctant to plunge his wife Ernestine, a professor of comparative literature at Montclair State College, into the hurly-burly of a national campaign. "If you backed me into a corner right now, I'd say I wasn't running in 1988," he says. In fact, he has laid none of the necessary groundwork, such as amassing a war chest or flying off to speak in early primary states like New Hampshire. Says Media...