Word: gores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience while he ponders the making of the next President. Chet Huntley has long since defected to American Airlines, so NBC's John Chancellor will serve as straight man for David Brinkley. Conservative William Buckley has switched both networks and adversaries. In 1968 he exchanged bitchy broadsides with Gore Vidal on ABC; this time he will have morning jousts with John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard's liberal economist, on NBC's Today show...
...EVENING WITH RICHARD NIXON AND ... by GORE VIDAL...
...this non-play, Gore Vidal rather hysterically strafes some of his pet skunks. In order of defamation, their names are Richard Nixon, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson and William F. Buckley Jr. Nixon is submitted to a kind of kangaroo court-martial, but Vidal is not interested in a dialogue of viewpoints. Instead, he offers a nonstop diatribe, vitriolic and at times caustically amusing. Nixon is so one-sided that it has the curious effect of creating a certain sympathy for its leading character...
They certainly did. Iowa Senator, Harold Hughes, complained about the lack of campaign leadership. Former Senator, Albert Gore, urged concentration on the nonprimary states, with curtailed campaigning for the April 25 primaries in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Berl Bernhard, Muskie's campaign chief, also advocated bypassing the rest of the primaries except for California with its winner-take-all 271 delegates...
EVERY bit as fierce-minded as their men, women have historically played a distinctive role in the troubles of Ireland. From the near legendary Countess Markievicz (Constance Gore-Booth), who was one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, to the black-bereted Provisional I.R.A. women of today, they have preached belligerence, run guns, helped plant bombs and provided sanctuary. The Catholic women of Belfast and Londonderry have been a not-so-secret weapon of the I.R.A.-lookouts who raised a racket by banging garbage-can lids when British soldiers approached, or shielded fugitive gunmen when squads of troops...