Word: dente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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South Carolinian Harry Dent is an old-fashioned back room political operative, a presidential counselor and one of the Nixon Administration's liaison men with the South. At a meeting with a group of regional newsmen whom he took to be good old Southern boys, Dent observed that the President's plan to review all court-ordered busing might lead to the elimination of most Southern busing plans to achieve racial balance in schools. When asked how the blacks on Nixon's staff would react to that kind of a civil rights retreat, Dent joked...
...last March. "All he ever talked about was sin," recalled one of his students. "He's a fine man," insisted his landlord. A classmate at Brigham Young University, where McCoy was a senior majoring in law enforcement, called him "an organized-crime freak" who "wanted to make his dent on the world by busting crime syndicates." His mother was mystified. "He's been very devoted to his church." Sobbed his wife: "How could he?" McCoy offered no explanation...
When U.S. builders set a new record last year by starting 2.1 million homes, no one was happier than Max H. Karl, a neat, bespectacled Milwaukee lawyer. With the upsurge in housing providing the push, Karl's MGIC Investment Corp. put a huge dent in what was once the sole domain of the Federal Government: home loan insurance. Today MGIC (pronounced magic) has $6.5 billion worth of insurance in force, compared with $12 billion insured by the Federal Housing Administration...
While trying to contain Ashbrook, the White House is not unduly worried. "I don't see anybody jumping off the roof," says Presidential Aide Harry Dent. Since Ashbrook has the support of William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader in New Hampshire, he might be able to outpoll McCloskey. But unless Ashbrook takes close to 20% of the vote, he is not likely to hurt the President. The White House expects to hold the middle ground, losing a little on both extremes to the opposition-just where Nixon hopes to pitch his re-election camp...
...excite it. "Right on" or not, he is unimpressive on many of the issues he addresses. He argues that he is qualified to see and solve urban problems because, as a country boy, he grew up "where the water is pure and the air is clean." That makes little dent on big city audiences of minority groups and impoverished whites. His view of the economy is largely that of a group of academic advisors, including Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, who are helping to bolster his grasp of the subject...