Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadlocked convention a new candidate, Mr. X, will sweep the exhausted and disarrayed Democrats off their feet. The one major flaw in the theory is that no one has yet come up with a plausible name. Some Democrats believe that Senator Edward Kennedy might be persuaded to accept a draft; others keep hoping for Senators Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey or even McGovern; still others yearn for a genuinely fresh face and a fresh start for the party. But for the moment, at least, Jackson is out front and going for broke. For the present, as never before in recent times...
...years he has been one of the Senate's most effective members, in part because of his deft ability to draft bills with broad appeal and his powers of cloakroom persuasion. His range is indicated by two pieces of legislation that he considers to be major achievements: 1) an act creating a comprehensive federal policy on environmental protection, and 2) an amendment directing that future arms agreements with Russia do not leave the U.S. with inferior numbers of weapons. Critics point out that numbers alone are largely meaningless, but this hardly bothers Jackson...
...pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Brooklyn. Neuhaus and Fellow Lutheran Peter Berger, iconoclastic author and sociologist at Rutgers, were the originators of the protest. Exasperated by what they consider a church sellout to such man-made ideologies as scientific rationalism and socialism, they wrote the original draft of the statement a year ago, mailed it to 50 churchmen for their reactions and summoned the Hartford meeting to prepare the final declaration...
...Stage/West cast is competent without being proficient, though Rombola's Cat has a disarmingly baffled naiveté and Scott's Memphis-Cleopatra is both perky and voluptuous. As of now, Marcus Brutus is more than a first draft and less than a finished drama, but certainly worth the doing as an intriguing work in progress...
...action group that receives only fragmented support from its constituents. Established by the city manager in 1962 to draw comprehensive plans for Harvard Square and watch over the Square's development, the task force, headed by Oliver Brooks, recruited business and community leaders and in December released a preliminary draft for use of the Square. It was expected that if anyone planned to erect any structure in the Square the task force would be called in first to survey the situation. But while the force was finishing its policy plan Sheldon Cohen, a task force member himself, went about unobstructed...