Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the lunch-and-siesta break, Siri slipped back; Benelli gained, but never reached more than 36. Ugo Poletti, Vicar Cardinal of Rome, got 30 votes as an unsuccessful compromise candidate. It was becoming clear that the Curial-conservative alliance would not accept Benelli, who had alienated them with his power-wielding at the Vatican; paradoxically, he was now deemed an anti-Curialist, partly for his backing of John Paul I. Nor were Benelli's backers about to vote for a dinosaur like Siri, who had recently been quoted in a Turin paper as saying, "Collegiality? I don't even...
...deadlock threatened, and as the Cardinals broke for Sunday-night dinner, talk turned to non-Italians?"like spontaneous combustion," says one participant. The germ of the Wojtyla candidacy began overnight with "a word here and a word there," according to another. On Monday morning's fifth ballot, Wojtyla got only a few votes, but they captured attention. Holland's Johannes Willebrands drew a respectable vote, and decided to withdraw in Wojtyla's favor. Wojtyla gained noticeably on the sixth ballot. Over lunch, Wojtyla was so visibly upset by the coalescing forces that his friends feared he might refuse the papacy...
...private meetings, the exchanges were frank. Confided one Administration representative: "We got a real going-over on Government barriers to exports." Yet, unlike earlier meetings, when most council members were depressed by what they saw as Jimmy Carter's aloofness to them, White House emissaries found the atmosphere generally friendly. Said General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones, who often visits the White House for private chats with President Carter: "Government officials understand problems a lot better than a year ago. The Administration is now more open-minded...
...administrative functions as chairman, defeated Chris Owens '81, a representative from Quincy who was discernibly more of an activist. Owens, during his pre-election speech for example, mentioned a half-dozen issues the assembly should tackle and cast the Harvard administration in an oppositional role to students. Owens got a lot of votes, but Winthrop...
Ford dislikes the term 'platooning' to describe his game plan. "It was just a case of trying to see who could play up," he said Saturday. "You've got four very good players all vying for two positions...