Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coatless, his tie loosened, eyes on the TV screens. He also spoke by telephone with AFL-CIO Chief George Meany, New York Mayor Abe Beame, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey and a nearly forgotten Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Tom Eagleton. He talked to Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, whom he had once scorned as one of the "political bosses" to whom he owed nothing. "I really appreciate what you did for me," he told Rizzo, referring to the breakthrough victory in Pennsylvania...
Many ballot boycotters hoped that their actions would eventually lead to reforms. Lincoln, Neb., Stockbroker Don Geis, 41, coordinated Senator Frank Church's primary campaign in Nebraska, and was disgusted with the surviving candidate. He asked: "In a nation of over 200 million is this the best we can come up with?" Geis suggested that voting booths be outfitted with a category labeled NONE OF THE ABOVE. Said he: "If none of the above wins it, we should then start over until we come up with decent candidates...
...Republicans who picked up Democratic seats included ex-Astronaut Harrison Schmitt over Joseph Montoya in New Mexico, Rancher Malcolm Wallop over Three-Term Veteran Gale McGee in Wyoming, Tax Lawyer Orrin Hatch over Frank Moss in Utah and former Navy Secretary John Chafee over Richard Lorber in Rhode Island. Among the Democrats who gained Republican seats: Tucson Attorney Dennis DeConcmi over Sam Steiger in Arizona, Congressman Spark Matsunaga over former Governor William Quinn in Hawaii, Congressman Paul Sarbanes over Incumbent Glenn Beall in Maryland and Omaha Mayor Edward Zorinsky over John McCollister in Nebraska. Some of the most intriguing races...
...candidates-both 38 and both articulate and able-staged a Pier 6 campaign. Green's commercials carried the tagline MAN AGAINST THE MONEY-though the Democrat spent nearly $ 1 million himself. Green is a bitter enemy of Philadelphia's Mayor Frank Rizzo, but Heinz depicted Green as an unwholesome machine politician, captive of the Philadelphia Democratic organization that his late father (whom Green succeeded in Congress) controlled for years...
...Lions about as much chance against John Anderson's 7-1 Bruins as a flickering candle in a Siberian blizzard. But the mood among Columbia's gridders, who can usually be found nestled in the jazz room of Morningside Height's West End Bar, which incidentally is billing the Frank Williams Swing Four this week, is one of quiet confidence...