Word: gores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When irate letters and editorials greeted the handout, the legislature hastily went into a special session and voted to repeal the law. Angered by the sight of their own blood, the reluctant reform ers decided to gore a few executive oxen...
...Gore certainly did not. Campaigning as a Republican loyalist, she won largely by criticizing Hogan for his apostasy. In the coming election, Gore will have to develop a platform to run against feisty Democratic Governor Marvin Mandel, 54, who won his primary easily despite the fact that in July he divorced his wife of 32 years and married a woman 17 years his junior the same...
MARYLAND. The most spectacular victories by women in the nation were scored by two remarkably different candidates, the first members of their sex to be nominated for statewide offices in Maryland. The Republican gubernatorial race was won by State Senator Louise Gore, 49, a throaty-voiced doyenne of Washington and Maryland society and a cousin of Tennessee's former Senator Albert Gore. She defeated Congressman Lawrence J. Hogan. A member of the House Judiciary Committee, Hogan, 45, gained national attention when he went on television to call for Richard Nixon's impeachment before the final hearings began. "Unfortunately...
Barbara A. Mikulski, 38, an ebullient, stubby (4 ft. 11 in.) member of the Baltimore city council, easily defeated ten rivals to win the Democratic nomination for Senator. Like Gore, Mikulski is unmarried, but there the similarity ends. A former social worker, she lives near her old Polish neighborhood and is active as a community organizer for the city's ethnic groups. Mikulski will face incumbent Senator Charles Mathias, 52, in what could turn out to be a fascinating election-liberal Democrat v. liberal Republican, ethnic v. the establishment...
...Republican leader hi the House. In 1969 Hartmann joined Ford's staff as legislative assistant and quickly won his boss's admiration for his willingness to work long hours, his avid embrace of conservative principles and his skill as a writer. Hartmann proudly recalls how he helped gore the Democratic Administration by exploiting the phrase "credibility gap" and by publicizing the number of Government contracts given to some of President Johnson's chief financial backers. During those years Hartmann also wrote position papers on legislative issues for the Republican House leaders. "We called them Constructive Republican Alternative...