Word: broads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jeff Melvoin, covering his first campaign for TIME, recalls the sight of G. Carlton Snowe helping his daughter-in-law Olympia Snowe win a seat in Congress from Maine. Reports Melvoin: "A big, broad man with an easy outdoor manner, 'Carlie' greeted his neighbors as they came to vote. As I drove away in the bleak New England afternoon, his white hair made him easy to pick out: a large figure bundled up against the cold wind, with a warm word for each passerby, going the last mile for his daughter...
...Texas, Lee Dreyfus in Wisconsin. Republican Jim Rhodes remained in control of the Ohio statehouse, and Bill Milliken was re-elected Governor of Michigan. Perhaps most threatening of all, Jim Thompson won re-election in Illinois by 600,000 votes-demonstrating that he is a moderate Republican with broad appeal in a big industrial state. He has not denied that he might run for President in 1980. Said Thompson: "The Republican Party has come alive again in its traditional seat of power, in the Midwest where it was born...
...short, what happened across this broad country last week seems to reinforce the emerging political and personal outlook of the President. Maybe the labels did not change much, but the men and women have, Carter included...
...vote came as a mild surprise. At the Lambeth Conference in Canterbury last August, a broad consensus of bishops of the Anglican communion from 25 nations joined those of the mother church in agreeing that the volatile issue of women's ordination ought to be decided by each national church. By taking that position, observers thought, the English Anglicans were foreshadowing approval of the bitterly disputed proposal. The lead had already been taken by Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong with little backlash. But the U.S. cast a shadow: after a close pro-ordination vote for women...
Interpublic's latest acquisition reflects an accelerating trend toward bigness in the ad business. Part of the reason is that large multinational clients need agencies that can supply a broad range of services from ad production to test marketing worldwide. At the same time, there will probably always be a place for the nimble, specialized "boutique" ad shops that live mainly on their creative flair. The losers in the shifting pattern are likely to be the middle-size full-service agencies that are not big enough to compete with the leaders and not agile enough to beat out the small...