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...opponent in 1975, Gil Carmichael apotheosized the values of this middle-class. Carmichael, who served as a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics the year after his defeat at the hands of Finch, was urban while Finch was bucolic, articulate while Finch was incoherent, organized while Finch was chaotic, and cerebral while Finch relied on good ol' home-grown common sense. Carmichael--a rich Volkswagen dealer--was the sweetheart of the more intelligent and wealthier 'Mississippians. In the election he carried Jackson, some coastal districts and the Mississippi Delta where plantations still abound and wealth and income disparities...
...role of party bosses and officials in the nomination of presidential candidates, Democrats have voiced increasing concern about the primary process. There was the perennial fear that it was too drawn out, with state caucuses and primaries spread over as many as five months. Increasingly too, it seemed chaotic, with many candidates splintering state delegate votes. Now, after two years of study, a 58-member Democratic Party commission, headed by Michigan's state chairman, Morley Winograd, has proposed a set of reforms that would make campaigns somewhat less taxing for primary candidates. In addition, the reforms would make...
Most of all, it was Blumenthal who last fall finally imposed some order on Carter's chaotic policymaking apparatus. Early in the Administration, programs were supposed to be coordinated...
...that are all-important to them. The dollar slide could accelerate world inflation: when other countries act to keep their own currencies from rising against the dollar, their moves, for complex technical reasons, increase the money supply in these countries -an inflationary force. And when exchange markets get as chaotic as they did last week, there arises the nightmare of a paralysis of world trade and investment...
Landry once sold insurance, so he is quite at home in Dallas, one of the country's major insurance centers. As any good actuary should, he relentlessly computes the possibilities and probabilities that govern the chaotic life span of a football game. His much-remarked-upon stoic sideline demeanor (Don Rickles: "There's 70,000 people going bananas and there's Tom Landry trying to keep his hat on straight") is a reflection of his calculating soul. Explains Wide Receiver Golden Richards: "He is not aware of the moment because he is thinking two plays ahead of the rest...