Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bonnie Angelo's final week with Idaho Senator Frank Church was no kind of show at all. He was haunted by the tragic flood in his home state. "Even his plane was wrecked by a runaway airport-maintenance cart in Cleveland," says Angelo, "and a telephone strike prevented him from learning the bad voting results...
...Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson released the 86 delegates that Daley's machine had won for him as a favorite son. George Wallace urged his 168 delegates to support Carter. If all those delegates voted for Carter, he would have the 1,505 needed to nominate. Scoop Jackson and Frank Church were expected to endorse him soon...
...accused Carter of "all of a sudden doing a flip-flop" because he had accepted endorsements from Wallace and Daley. Asked recently whom he would vote for in November if he were not a candidate, Brown said laconically: "Oh, I don't know. I might not vote at all." Frank Mankiewicz, a Carter fan, cracked that Jerry Brown's performance was "an exercise in gracelessness without pressure...
After graduation last year, Steve went to Washington to work for Sen. Frank Church (D.-Idaho), but he found the same difficulty there: no one really seemed concerned with "Joe Farmer or Joe Factory Worker back home bustin' ass in the fields or the saw mill all day so a bunch of guys could live high in Washington." After a year back in an Idaho sawmill, Steve now says that he is "de-Harvardized" enough to try school again. He wants to become a labor lawyer and return to Idaho: "A good lawyer out here could really help the little...
...Neither Frank Rizzo nor John Havlicek should be up for awards this year...