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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Risky Future. Young, 44, is one of the brightest Congressmen. Defeated only in his first campaign for election to the House in 1970, he has won three later contests by ever increasing majorities. He has earned a prized place on the immensely powerful House Rules Committee, and with continuity of service he would be virtually assured of eventual succession to its chairmanship. Why he should risk so golden a political future remains a mystery to many of his supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Gadfly in a Suicide Post | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...familiar faces of the elite foreign policy establishment that has traditionally answered the call of Democratic presidents. These men had been biding their time in corporate boardrooms and Wall Street law offices waiting for the moment when they could return to Washington. They had been the "best and the brightest" in their day and they gave their country Vietnam. And now one of their number has been appointed Secretary of State...

Author: By Parker C. Folse, | Title: Prisoners of the Past | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...best of the whole bunch, the brightest gem among this group of talented freshmen gathered up by Satch Sanders to insure a winning future, is high school whiz Joe Beaulieu...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: High School Whiz Beaulieu Turns Down the Big Time, Stays Close to Home to Play Basketball for the Crimson | 11/20/1976 | See Source »

...brightest spot for Penn is quarterback Bob Graustein, who some claim is the best quarterback in the league when Jim Kubacki plays like he did against Brown. Others claim that Graustein is the best, period...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Crimson-Quakers: After Brown and Before Yale | 11/6/1976 | See Source »

...this fall. Betty Ford has tired easily since her mastectomy two years ago (she is in the final stages of receiving chemotherapy), and she suffers from painful osteoarthritis in the left side of her neck and shoulder. For a short period, she can still dazzle with one of the brightest smiles in American politics; but when she does venture onto the hustings, Ford's staffers are under strict instructions to see that she is not required to speak or stand for any period of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: It's a Clash of the Clans | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

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