Word: ex-governor
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Also at the hotel were all of ex-Governor A.M. Malik's cabinet members, who were mostly hand-picked opportunists from minor parties. They are expected to face trial as war criminals. Their wives and other Pakistani women lived in fear, and the frequent moaning from their rooms at the Intercontinental contrasted eerily with the noisy candlelight poker and chess games of the correspondents who were not standing four-hour guard duty to keep out intruders. The hotel roof could hardly have been a better place for TV crews to grind away at air strikes. During the raids, shrapnel...
...former actor can become Governor of California, surely a former Governor can become an actor." With those words ex-Governor Pat Brown took his place before the cameras for his dramatic debut in the legal-medical TV series, The Bold Ones. Brown, now a practicing attorney, plays a judge; he rests between takes in a director's chair laconically stenciled RONNIE...
...Nixon's running mate in 1972. But the news caused only a mild wave of feigned surprise among Connally's fellow Texans. Indeed, since Connally moved into Nixon's Republican Cabinet in December, they have come to expect actions atypical of a hardened party man from their ambitious Democratic ex-governor...
...Scion of a wealthy Rio Grande family, Bentsen is genteel but wooden. A former Congressman, he heads a $400 million insurance company and sits on the boards of a number of banks and an oil company. Bentsen was lured back into politics by Yarborough's old foe, ex-Governor John Connally, in a well-organized drive to scuttle Yarborough. The conservative faction put together an effective campaign estimated to cost close to $2,000,000, relying heavily on television advertising, while Yarborough spent a meager $200,000. Connally's mentor, Lyndon Johnson, remained officially neutral, but Bentsen...
Five lesser candidates in the May 5 Democratic primary may force a runoff. This would deprive the feisty little ex-Governor of the big win he needs in order to retain his national clout. But nobody is counting George out yet. Much depends on whether Wallace still evokes the Populist yearnings of traditionalist Alabama. Says State Senator C.C. Torbert: "If they vote with their minds, it will be Brewer; if they vote from their hearts, it will be Wallace...