Word: craning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential standardbearer. Three weeks ago, the silver-haired Connally made a stem-winding speech to 600 Midwestern Republican leaders at a convention in Indianapolis. A subsequent poll of 254 delegates showed that 29% favored Connally for the nomination, while Reagan trailed with 21%. Admits a rival, conservative Congressman Philip Crane of Illinois: "Connally has a lot of pizazz...
...here we go again in 1979, a full year before the vote. Republican Senator Bob Dole has been buttering up fellow World War II veterans in Nashua. Handsome Republican Congressman Phil Crane has already dropped in 20 times, charming the ladies at every stop. He has also pointed out to the legislature that charges in the Manchester Union Leader about his sex life and drinking habits were "beneath contempt." Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker speechified at a Republican banquet in Concord. Former CIA Director George Bush preceded, and followed, all three. Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker is planning a foray. Former...
...dingy second floor office from which he directs the state Republican Party and the Goodyear tire franchise in Manchester, G.O.P. Chairman Gerald Carmen concedes that "the ordinary, rank and file voter isn't all that stirred up. You think he's trying to decide between Reagan and Crane? Nah. He's wondering whether his car will start in this cold weather. He's hoping the temperature won't drop to 20 below tonight...
...Nope," says Pell. "The only guy I ran into who was talking politics was a fellow who sat next to me in the sauna." What did he say? "He said Phi Crane is really rollin'." Anything more? "That...
...Harvard students play so much basketball and tennis at municipal playgrounds up and down Memorial Drive that there is no room left for Cambridge residents to use the facilities. "It's a severe problem at the Corporal Burns," a playground on Memorial Drive near Mather House, councilor Kevin P. Crane '73, said yesterday...