Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oakland A's Tuesday drafted Crimson outfielder Mike Stenhouse in the first round of the free agent baseball draft. The 6 ft.-1 in., 180-1b. junior said yesterday he is "thrilled and honored" at the offer but he has not yet decided whether to accept...
...rise a little more quickly in the major leagues," Stenhouse, an economics major, said. Although he's excited by the prospect of playing professional baseball, Stenhouse said he is planning to graduate from Harvard, either by completing two more fall semesters or by waiting until next year's draft pick and playing ball for Harvard next spring...
Still, pro-Kennedy efforts in a number of crucial primary states were going forward. In New Hampshire, which has the earliest of regular primaries and thus a disproportionate say in presidential selection, half a dozen scattered Draft Ted efforts have been pulled together. Dudley Dudley, a member of the Governor's executive council and a leader of the movement, claims she will not be dissuaded even if Kennedy strongly vows his unavailability. Says she: "This is a draft movement, and the nature of a draft is to persuade a reluctant candidate he must run." Polls in the Granite State...
...amount to a national convention of pro-Kennedy groups. In New York, State Attorney General Robert Abrams listened to Kennedy recite his well-rehearsed "I expect the President to be nominated and I expect to support his re-election" and then started making some plans for his own Draft Ted organization...
Neither the non-candidate nor his aides seem to be encouraging or coordinating these efforts. Kennedy feels strongly that a direct challenge to Carter would seriously split the party, as Chairman White warns, but the draft efforts and his refusal to disavow, once and for all, his candidacy have already begun dividing Democrats. By his ambivalence, Kennedy is also helping to undermine Carter's political strength. Ironically, a weakened President will have trouble passing such an important measure as the SALT II treaty, which Kennedy himself favors. Although exaggerating Carter's problem, New York Senator Patrick Moynihan summed...