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...Alabama Governor George Wallace in Florida. Dropping his genteel accent, former Governor Jimmy Carter spoke jokingly in the redneck slang of his rural South, vowing, "And we gon' take 'im!" His traveling Georgia campaign workers whooped with joy. Then Carter, whose Secret Service code name is Dasher, flew off to Boston while most of his exhausted Democratic opponents slept overnight in New Hampshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: On to the Showdown in Florida | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...offers medium-priced and expensive (up to $5,360) sedans, most notably the Audi 80, called the Fox in the U.S. Sales of these cars are rising faster than anything else the company makes. Last August, Volkswagen introduced the Passat, a conventional-shaped, water-cooled sedan. Renamed the Dasher for the American market, 9,273 have already been sold in the U.S. this year. A four-seat sports coupe dubbed the Scirocco debuted in Europe this winter and will soon appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Beetle Stalls | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...noticeable just from the tightlipped expressions upon the faces of the Crimson skaters as they came off the Ice, and in the way in which they slapped their sticks against the dasher as they entered the bench after a turn, that something was happening over which they had no control...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Puckers Defeated; Thinclads Destroy Army | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

...foreign aid that the committee had voted to give a President all he asked for. But Johnson wasn't home free. Still to come was the foreign aid appropriations bill, which would no doubt feel the paring knife of Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, champion dasher of Presidential foreign aid hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: A Salable Piece of Work | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

Forthwith, Major General Charles Dasher, the U.S. commandant in Berlin, called on the Soviet commandant. Major General P. T. Dibrova, to protest the Volkspolizei's "lawless . . . ruffianism," and to say that of all the incidents in recent years, "I consider this the most serious." Dibrova replied that he could not accept the protest. Reason: East Germany is a sovereign state now; East Berlin is its capital, and no longer a Russian-occupied sector. Dibrova's statement was dutifully echoed by the East German official Communist newspaper Neues Deutschland, which condemned the West for taking refuge behind "nonexistent four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: With Flags Flying | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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