Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pattern of blighted expectations recurs in the opening scene of the second act; this time, George-now a stuff, Establishment type-exchanges verbal thrusts with Doris-metamorphosed into a Berkeley flower child. Refusing indignantly to sleep with a former Goldwater voter, Doris sniffs, "And all the time I though Democrat...
...commission has not even been formed yet. President Ford, who must nominate two of the six full-time members, has still not submitted any names to Congress. The House and Senate have done their part by each nominating a Democrat and a Republican. However, all four notably lack national stature and expert knowledge of electoral practices...
...Congress and get something done!' " The American public did not appear to be panicking; people were sober and subdued but still largely positive as they appraised their own and their country's future. "The mood isn't gloom and doom," says Norman Mineta, a freshman Democrat from Southern California. "The question always asked is how much and how long it is going to take to turn this around...
...ever happened to Amelia Earhart?". In addition, the integration of serious research and solid evidence with pure fantasy has weakened the appeal of many legitimate investigators. But it may be possible to compel Congress to reopen the cases, just by the weight of evidence already uncovered. One Congressman, Texas Democrat Henry Gonzales, has already called for such a step. This should be the primary objective of all researchers. Independent investigations can only pose the questions. If some form of a real resolution is at all possible, it will only come from an investigation that has the cooperation of members...
...Congress he established himself as a New Deal Democrat. In 1952 he moved up, bucking the Eisenhower landslide to win election to the Senate over conservative Republican Incumbent Harry Cam. In the Senate, Jackson was soon enlisted in the Democratic campaign to bring down Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and end his witchhunt for subversives in Government. Among other things, Jackson asked a series of ironic questions during the Army-McCarthy hearings that helped reduce the Wisconsin Senator to an object of ridicule. The strain of those hearings led to an attack of fibromyositis, an extremely painful, body-wide...