Word: carles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kennedy's closest political cronies and one of the ablest political strategists in the country. Rick Stearns, 35, a former assistant district attorney in Massachusetts, who was a strategist for George McGovern in 1972, will be the campaign's delegate hunter, trying to fill the Kennedy slates. Carl Wagner, 34, who was Kirk's successor on Kennedy's Senate staff, will fly around the country, setting up campaign committees. Only a few of the draft-Kennedy volunteers will be taken on. In Kennedy's view, goodwilled, enthusiastic amateurs are fine for leafleting and doorbell ringing, but the running of campaigns...
...Kucinich of using racist appeals in his campaigns. In the nonpartisan mayoral primary, Kucinich polled only 15.3 per cent of the black vote compared to 25.3 per cent for Republican Lieutenant Governor George V. Voinovich. Still, Kucinich delivers speeches in the black ghetto to tumultuous applause and former mayor Carl Stokes has strongly endorsed him, telling the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I understand that in a diverse city in which racial politics has been the order of the day, that, if a man is going to survive, he has to do what everyone who has survived has done, including me...Kucinich...
...words. Politics seems more and more a game played with percentages turned up by pollsters, and economics a learned babble of ciphers and indexes that few people can translate and apparently nobody can control. Modern civilization, in sum, has begun to resemble an interminable arithmetic class in which, as Carl Sandburg put it, "numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head...
Students have also complained about the Quincy Square bus stop where the shuttle will stop while construction continues on Mass. Ave, Carl V. Swanson, central services superintendent for the Department of Buildings and Grounds, said...
...CARL SAGAN'S MISSION--to popularize contemporary science--is beyond reproach. Yet, like a hard-sell broker, his execution is chronically faulty. In this collection of 25 essays he spreads before the reader a whole gamut of the most tasty scientific ideas, concepts, and predictions, ranging from the prospect of extraterrestial life to the role of gestation in shaping world religion. But he skips frenetically from one to the next, milking only the most sensational aspects and indulging freely in irresponsible speculation. Our aggravation is heightened by his persistent editorial voice in the background, applauding the genius of this...