Word: craning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even better in the furious flap over a Reagan-Bush debate the Saturday night before the primary. Reagan had challenged Bush to a one-on-one debate, sponsored by the Nashua, N.H., Telegraph, then agreed to pay the tab and artfully invited in four other candidates, Anderson, Baker, Crane and Dole. The Telegraph refused to change the rules for the debate, despite Reagan's angry protests, and a thoroughly flustered Bush supported the newspaper. The other candidates then charged out, accusing Bush of silencing them. The absurd scene made a strong impression on New Hampshire voters to whom Bush...
...debate, Reagan suddenly began to worry about complaints from the excluded candidates. Be sides, was it really to his advantage to treat Bush as the only other major candidate? Reagan operatives began calling the other candidates - Senator Howard Baker, Senator Robert Dole, Representative Phillip Crane and Anderson -- to invite them to the debate. Although Bush told the news paper that he would reluctantly agree to a six-man debate, he was not told of the Reagan camp's maneuvers-whether accidentally or by design is up to each voter to decide for himself...
...most of Manchester, a north-south collection of aging offices and new bank towers. Three days before the New Hampshire primary, politics permeates the strip--Phil Crane's headquarters features a one-story full-color poster of the Illinois congressman's face. Jerry Brown wafts in a cloud of reporters, up and down the sidewalk, greeting Bush supporters gathered in the doorway of the Republican's office. A diversionary force of 3000 college students marches down one lane, leaving enough room for cars to pass, stopping to heckle the headquarters staff of candidates who favor draft registration. John Anderson workers...
Councilor Kevin P. Crane '73 said the amendment might force Sears and Roebuck to leave the city. The store is trying to tear down a Roseland St. building to make room for a parking...
...decided to get into the arena with his adversaries. For a seasoned performer, he got off to a rather halting start in Manchester. He made his points, but pallidly. Because of an unlucky draw, he was the last of the candidates to speak, following John Anderson, John Connally, Philip Crane, George Bush, Howard Baker and Robert Dole. "I kept hearing my own answers coming back," he said. But he adroitly fielded an unwelcome question from the audience about why he had told an ethnic joke a few days earlier. Claiming that he had been on the right side "long before...