Word: ex-governor
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...looks somewhat like an Episcopal rector (which he is), Danforth now crisscrosses the state in a van and tells voters that he wants to be a "pain in the neck" in Washington. He lost a narrow Senate race in 1970, but he is spending heavily against his opponent, ex-Governor Warren E. Hearnes, who is severely tarnished by allegations of scandal in his past administration...
...Republican side, the primaries could not produce a clear-cut winner, and this was a significant result in itself. The primary process made it possible for an ex-Governor who had never held national office to mount a formidable campaign against a sitting President. Whatever the merits and flaws of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, it is bracing in a democracy to see the powers of incumbency so effectively challenged. Only yesterday Richard Nixon, John Dean, etc., were dreaming up schemes to "maximize the incumbency...
...former Harvard philosophy major and part-time poet. Steven Stark '73 speaks earnestly of what he perveives as ex-Governor Jimmy Carter's commitment to "social justice" and "equality...
Wilkie's story told of Carter's Miachiavellian campaign against liberal ex-Governor Carl Sanders, his strategy of playing to the "redneck" vote and, hence, his tactic of not attacking old-time racists Lester Maddox and Roy Harris. The story also let the air out of Carter's inflated boasts that he streamlined state government without orphaning social programs, by pointing out the confusion in the newly-created juggernaut Department of Human Resources. But the Globe story fairly assessed the divergent opinions of experts on the outcome of Carter's efficiency measures, and pointed out both his post-election emasculation...
...trusty thirty-odd-six strapped to the dashboard. Vicious radar traps; Rocky's drug laws, which are easy to forget if you've been sitting in the suburbs for a while, but on the thruway you pass Albany, and in the distance looms the series of edifices that the ex-governor built with Speer-like glee before he left office, a sop to his ego and construction-industry friends. They are buildings that will still be here when the world ends, inhuman enough for the J. Edgar Hoover Center in Washington to look like a Taos adobe beside them. With...