Word: gardner
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Like a solicitous maitre d', Bill Gardner, the amiable New Hampshire secretary of state, welcomes each presidential candidate who walks into his high-ceilinged State House office. And between the fourth and the 15th of December, a gallimaufry of folks do just that. For during those two weeks, anyone with $1,000 and the nerve can get on the ballot in the nation's first primary...
...their handlers. Many were former military intelligence officers whose mental pictures of far-off sites may have been informed by experience. The CIA study also found evidence that the handlers sometimes embellished what the psychics saw. "Folks want to believe that the paranormal is for real," says Martin Gardner, one of the founders of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. And at least one Senator--Claiborne Pell, 77, of Rhode Island--will say it for the record: "If the CIA is not interested, that's their business. I am convinced that we should continue...
...book's second section, Atwood looks outward to mythology, both ancient (Helen of Troy, Troilus and Cressida) and contemporary (Ava Gardner), often weighing in with satirical observations about sexual politics. In "Miss July Grows Older," another version of the modern myth, an aging pin-up girl comes to represent sexual charlatanry of all kinds ("Men were a skill," "Don't get me wrong: with the lights out/I'd still take on anyone"). The narrative voice is reminiscent of the prickly teenage heroine...
Friends and foes of Fried, who is the Carter professor of general jurisprudence, testified before the seven members of the Governor's Council at the Gardner Auditorium in the State House...
...weekly radio address, President Clinton chided House Speaker Newt Gingrich for dragging his heels on their agreed-upon commitment to create a nonpartisan panel on political reform. Clinton named John Gardner, the Republican founder of Common Cause, and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin as consultants for such a commission. A Gingrich spokesman called Clinton's remarks a "cheap shot...