Word: gallen
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...taught himself programming to help expedite his doctoral thesis on fluid mechanics. In 1969 he moved to New Hampshire, added Republican politics to his long list of interests, served in the state legislature, and in 1982 was elected Governor in an upset victory over the Democratic incumbent, Hugh Gallen...
DIED. Hugh Gallen, 58, plainspeaking, two-time Democratic Governor of traditionally Republican New Hampshire, who upset Incumbent Meldrim Thomson in 1978 on his promise (later honored) to eliminate a surcharge from electric bills and hold the line on taxes; of liver and kidney failure, a week before he was to leave office; in Boston. A self-made owner of a car dealership, Gallen in his third gubernatorial campaign refused to take "the pledge" against a state income or sales tax because of looming budget problems, rightly suspecting that his stance might cost him reelection...
...post-Watergate landslide of 1974. They will preside in 34 states, a net gain of seven for sure, with a remote possibility of picking up an eighth in Illinois (see following story). Of the five incumbents who lost, only one was a Democrat: New Hampshire's Hugh Gallen, beaten because he refused to take the state's ritual pledge for gubernatorial candidates to veto any income or sales...
...taxes. Determined to protect the state's tradition, Republican Thomson came out of political retirement and filed as an independent. But the Republican nominee turned out to be John Sununu, a conservative ally. Fearing his candidacy could drain enough votes from Sununu to re-elect Democratic Incumbent Hugh Gallen (who refused to take the pledge this time), Thomson tried to withdraw but it was too late. His self-defeating campaign worked: Thomson got only 2% of the vote and Sununu upset Gallen...
...This is enough, I thought. Enough, for sure. And I was winding through the other, roaring bear cages when Gallen screamed, Schrutt's out! I thought. But when I squinted through cage corners and down the dark paths toward the Small Mammal House, I saw a man-shaped figure, loping more or less on all fours, turn the corner by the Monkey Complex-followed by another just like him, though not as thick in the chest. The orangutan and the lowland gorilla, in cahoots...