Word: edward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some White House staff members had speculated that Carter would not support Edward J. King, the conservative Democratic gubernatorial nominee, who unexpectedly defeated Gov. Dukakis in the primaries...
Despite Carter's absence, the dedication ceremonies for the Kennedy School of Government will not lack luminaries, political or otherwise. Dukakis, Sen. Edward Kennedy '54 (D-Mass), House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass) and Jacqueline Onassis will attend the two-day celebration. Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops, will conduct the Harvard University Band...
...national sentiment has resulted in perhaps the strongest dissident movement currently in Eastern Europe. The Workers Defence Committee (WDC) set up in 1976 to raise aid for the victimised strikers of engineering works at Ursus and Radom has become an umbrella group for all opposition to the regime of Edward Gierek. The ability to forge a genuine alliance of interest among workers, students and intellectuals by common protest at a tangible grievance (in this case government plans for sudden massive food price rises in June 1976) has had a continuing political spin-off. 40,000 letters of protest...
...Well, over in the American Legion hall, a psychic healer from Arizona is lecturing about how he knits up broken bones by gently running his hands over the injured area. He also performs exorcisms. In a classroom at the Danville high school, a retired Texas Instruments engineer, Edward Jastram, is busily attributing illness and depression to mysterious "entities" that invade the body, "like mischievous angels." Says Jastram: "Psychedelic drugs especially expose you to such invasions...
...week to spell out the terms they would like to see in a renegotiated contract, but there is little hope that the University will display the flexibility that most of the workers hope for and Harvard has made every effort to discourage them. The University's chief labor negotiator, Edward F. Powers, has made not-so-veiled threats to reconsider some of the concessions Harvard made during the contract negotiations...