Word: gots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used-car dealer in Washington, N.C., hadn't got rid of that red and white 1978 Chrysler Newport so fast, it would have been easier for the big-city reporter to unravel the mystery that is still swirling around this little town. Because if the reporter had been able to examine the Chrysler, he might have found tell-tale traces of paint. And according to Gertrude Baker, the paint happened to be there because an outraged neighbor splattered it on the car after Dominique Wilkins, her son by an earlier marriage, decided to enroll in the University of Georgia...
...problems. Feinstein argued that she had united a diverse city after Moscone's death. But in the end, old-fashioned political organizing and the wooing of minorities turned out to be more important than issues. Feinstein's liberal record won her the support of blacks. She also got the strong backing of the gay community by promising to appoint homosexuals to city boards and commissions in proportion to their share of the population (estimated at about 15%). The tactic succeeded: fully 70% of the gay vote appears to have gone to Feinstein, making the election the first...
...campaign left her exhausted. At a victory party, she clutched a ginger ale and complained: "I've got a stomach- ache." She faces some daunting problems: the need for cuts to make up a projected deficit of $117 million and balance the budget, as required by law. But her four-year term will begin with a honeymoon -literally. In January, she will marry Investment Banker Richard Blum, who has been her unofficial political adviser for the past year...
Treen won by emphasizing his staunchly conservative stands in a state where the Democrats often vote like Republicans. Surprisingly, he got the backing of all the major Democrats that Lambert had beaten in the primary. A pro-union populist with a careening political style, Lambert hurt his own cause by suggesting Treen was guilty of political chicanery...
...dispute whatever public support the Shah once had. The Shah's secret police may not have tortured so widely or viciously as the Ayatullah's propagandists claim, but at least some torture seems to be conceded. How many millions of dollars the Shah and his family got away with-those "umpteen billions," in Kennedy's phrase-amounts to a quarrel about numbers...