Word: cook
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Daley, of course, may have something to say about that once he fine tunes his vaunted Cook County organization. But in four different polls, Thompson has been ahead by margins ranging from 15 to 24 percentage points, and even Daley may not be able to narrow that sufficiently. On the campaign trail, Hewlett, 62, who established a good record as state auditor for twelve years and as secretary of state since 1972, has come across as a buffoon. He once said "F-you" to a television reporter-on camera. He also offered up a straight line to Thompson by criticizing...
Fine, but if Silas does sign--keep your wristbands crossed--the Celts will have 13 players for only 12 sports. Who goes? With Wicks and Silas, plus John Havlicek. Steve Kuberski, Glenn McDonald and Tom Bosewell, will highly touted rookie Norm Cook see the light all year...
Daley didn't become so powerful or win a 730,000 vote plurality by flashing his Ultra-Brite teeth or by claiming virility and experience as his major assets. Daley is strong because the Cook County Democratic organization (more commonly referred to as the "machine") functions so smoothly. But machines break down without fuel, and that fuel is patronage and other material inducements...
...strong point. I can't understand why Carter didn't point out Ford had been in Congress 25 years and done nothing to try to reform it." Perhaps as good an analysis as any was embodied in the "counterklutzical theory" formulated by TIME'S West Coast bureau chief, Jess Cook, who thought Ford may have won because so little was expected of him. Wrote Cook of Ford's "strategy...
...rules don 'no mo'mek a cook...