Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their numbers and diversity, black leaders still encounter difficulties in exercising power. They need to form alliances with white politicians, and they find such alliances unreliable in a time of growing conservatism. California's Jerry Brown angered blacks by his tepid support for his running mate, Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally, who lost to a conservative Republican, and for former Congresswoman Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, who lost her campaign for attorney general. Even Ted Kennedy, who remains the most popular white politician among black voters, raised hackles in black communities by campaigning for Ed Brooke's Democratic opponent. Says Massachusetts...
Washington Senator Scoop Jackson, California Governor Jerry Brown and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland. Those who sent regrets, however, should have no regrets about having missed a whiz-bang show; the convention was exceptionally dull...
Both Herrera and Piñerua depended heavily on professional American campaign strategists. Herrera's adviser was Manhattan-based David Garth, whose credits include the victories of New York Governor Hugh Carey and New York City Mayor Edward Koch. Piñerua had the services of Clifton White, a former Barry Goldwater aide, and Joseph Napolitan, author of The Election Game and How to Win It, who ran the successful 1973 campaign of outgoing President Carlos Andr...
Ohira was Finance Minister in 1975 when Jimmy Carter, then an ex-Governor from Georgia with ambitions, went to Japan for a Trilateral Commission meeting. To Ohira, whom he met on that trip, Carter made a confident promise that he would see him "next time at the White House." When Ohira takes him up on that invitation, his Oval Office visit will be more than a courtesy call...
...Come, based on H.G. Wells' science-fiction thriller. When Lynley, 36, arrived on the set, she learned that her costume was to be "a unisex Mao outfit." Nevertheless, she was cheered by her role as Niki, ruler of a planet named Delta III. "I'm called 'Governor,' not 'Governess' of the planet," says Lynley matter-of-factly. "Apparently there is no delineation of sex in the future...