Word: brights
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Before Chambers' charges of espionage cut him down, Hiss had seemed headed for a great future; some associates even thought he was a potential Secretary of State. One of the New Deal's bright young men, he worked briefly for the Agriculture Department and the Nye committee, which was investigating the arms manufacturers of World War I, and then joined the State Department. In the 1940s he rose almost effortlessly as a protege of Secretary Edward Stettinius and his deputy, Dean Acheson, serving as an adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at the Yalta conference and as Secretary-General of the founding...
...secular press and found the "clear winner" to be Evangelist Billy Graham. Other members of the top ten in order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty, President Jimmy Carter, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, Oral Roberts, Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, Jesse Jackson, Anita Bryant and William P. Thompson, the chief executive of the United Presbyterian Church. Lest the survey be taken too seriously, George Burns, star of Oh, God!, got two votes...
...Bright spots among the infirmities came from the Harvard regulars Ed Ajootian, Dan Sullivan, John Murphy, Chris Queen and Hasan Kayali. Fitzsimmons' high finish signaled a strong return to varsity racing after a long war with tendonitis. And Gary Schmidt won the 440 in fine form after missing several meets...
Attired in a poorly fitting trench coat and bright red sneakers, the glazy-eyed miner presents us with an object for our compassion as well as our amusement; his sphinx-like expression never once breaks into an unprofessional grin, unlike his colleagues in the Monty Python group during some of their other skits...
Hart is a relative unknown, to be sure, but Carter himself proved that this is not at all a disqualifying attribute in the media age. The intense, bright (Hart graduated from the Yale Law School) and photogenic Hart might well become the leading liberal alternative to "Government cannot..." Carter and "Era of limits" Brown in 1980. Though Hart's background would almost certainly lead to his being labeled a "McGovernite" or a "radical liberal" by his Democratic opponents in the primaries or by the Republicans in the fall should he be nominated, Hart demonstrated in his 1974 campaign that...