Word: elected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film, the applause kept growing until the fadeout, when an exaltation of bravos enveloped Spielberg as if Pavarotti and not a 3-ft. 6-in. spaceman were ascending into the heavens. The Cannes elite, happy to see its convention end on a note of triumph, seemed ready to elect Spielberg President of France. -By Richard Corliss
Walters presented the same case to the military leaders, stressing that a failure to include moderate elements in the new government could lead to a cutoff of U.S. military aid. Apparently impressed, the generals reportedly put pressure on the politicians to elect Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, 56, a moderate banker with close ties to the army, President of the provisional government that is expected to be named this week...
...original Mercury astronauts seemed like seven identical slices of Mom's apple pie. Posing for LIFE, they were wholesome and squeaky clean, they were the True brothers, the select elect, they had it-you know-the right stuff. Now seven relatively unknown actors are portraying the real thing in a movie of Tom Wolfe's 1979 bestseller, The Right Stuff. Striking a version of the LIFE cover, they are, from left to right and top to bottom, Lance Henriksen as Wally Schirra and Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard; Ed Harris as John Glenn, Charles Frank as Scott Carpenter...
...focus on helping to elect the right people to the Senate, and by that I mean those for nuclear arms control," he said...
...student government has volunteered to pay the students' legal less from a student summer activities fund. Student Union President elect Kevin McGuire added yesterday