Word: clark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mustache is slightly thicker than Clark Gable's, his smile is even more dazzling, and he sees the possibilities. "Clark Gable is the apex," says Actor Billy Dee Williams. "A star is what everyone wants to be, even Presidents...
...Community Chest, Boy Scouts and the Jaycees, Schweiker built a foundation for a political career. In 1960, he defeated conservative Republican John Lafore in a congressional primary, then won the seat in November. After four terms in the House, Schweiker went after the office of liberal Democratic Senator Joseph Clark and came from far behind to upset him by 282,000 votes, even while Hubert Humphrey was carrying Pennsylvania in the national election...
...Clark Nickerson...
...stage raids against Castro. The polls showed Rockefeller the favorite among Republicans over Goldwater by a margin of 43 to 26 per cent. Only an act of incredible naivete could stop him. Rockefeller provided it by marrying Happy Murphy, fast upon the heels of his divorce from Mary Todhunter Clark. Virtually overnight his lead over Goldwater reversed itself; Goldwater now led him in the polls by 40 to 29 per cent...
...Clark Clifford, who helped engineer the great Truman victory of 1948, stayed home in Washington. From his quiet office overlooking the White House, he described the Carter phenomenon as "the second political miracle of this century" (Truman's triumph over Dewey being the first). But not a miracle of chance, Clifford insisted, a miracle of planning and perspicacity. The politics of want-learned during the New Deal and Fair Deal, turned into the New Frontier and Great Society -was no longer pertinent. "New generation coming," said Clifford...