Word: gordon
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Eagleton's name, says McGovern Executive Assistant Gordon Weil, had first come up speculatively about a month before. When his assets and liabilities were discussed at the last-minute staff meeting, several staff men mentioned rumors of a drinking problem; none, insists Frank Mankiewicz, concerned hospitalization. Weil and one or two other staffers made quick calls to Missouri political figures and to journalists. Says Hart: "There was no tangible evidence whatsoever. Nobody could verify." Despite firm, repeated words of discouragement from Edward Kennedy, however, McGovern stuck to the belief that Ted would run as No. 2. Myer Feldman...
...fringes of Manhattan society. Superlatively acted by Jon Voight as a frustrated lexas stud and Dustin Hoffman as the down-on-his-luck cripple he joins forces with. Also, Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa, a tasteless but hilarious comedy of mother hate, starring George Segal and Ruth Gordon. CINEMA 733. Wednesday and Thursday. Call...
...GORDON WEIL, 35, while not an economist (he holds a Ph.D. from Columbia in government), is the liaison between the candidate and his advisers. Some of the latter complain that Weil shielded McGovern too tightly from their thoughts-including their second ones on how much some programs might cost-with the result that the Senator has had to retreat from much of his original arithmetic. Weil admits that while drafting the widely criticized April summary of McGovern's economic positions, "I did not expect it to be subject to this kind of scrutiny." Nevertheless, he maintains that "we have...
...days last week, Detroit area politicians and hopefuls studied at the feet of two masters of political cosmetics: spruce, wisecracking Roger Ailes, television adviser and image maker to President Nixon, and soft-drawling Gordon Wade, onetime director of communications for the Republican National Committee. Under the sponsorship of Kaiser Broadcasting, the pair have now held six bipartisan sessions in major cities, giving advice that ranges from the fundamental ("Money is the mothers' milk of politics") to the peripheral ("Get long socks. Nobody likes to see a patch of bare leg over a droopy sock"). Unusual as it seems...
...Anthony Burgess (Bollonfine) Cape of Storms by John Gordon...