Word: governors
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...this time, Brooke had conceded, and ABC had picked King to be the next governor of the Commonwealth. Though the green blackboard in the basement of the Commonwealth Ave. Harvard Club boasted the Newton-Boston returns--3555 for Crampton, 3372 for Crane--Crampton reported that the computer-tally break-down stalled the real story, and the story really was that Crampton was behind, by his own estimate--"about 21/2 or 31/2...
...different choices; in one race they will have to pick the lesser of two evils while in the other, they have a choice between two credible, issue-oriented candidates. The state will be able to both tread water and move ahead at the same time. The outcome of the Governor's race clearly pretends to be one of the most critical junctures in the state's history. Democratic nominee Edward J. King has neither offered the voters any sensible vision of the state's future direction, nor has he been able to run his campaign without a disturbing number...
...decade of feminist attempts to break old stereotypes. Indeed, in 1962 there were 20 women in Congress?18 in the House and two in the Senate. But next week women will probably win only 18 seats in the House and none in the Senate. Says South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Nominee Nancy Stevenson: "If there's any movement, it's been backward...
...outright sexism?a feeling, among women as well as men, that a woman's place is in the home, not the House. Kansas Democratic Congresswoman Martha Keys, who is married to Indiana Congressman Andrew Jacobs, has an opponent who used the slogan A MAN TO RELY ON. When Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso ran four years ago, she was confronted by her opponent's slogan CONNECTICUT CAN'T AFFORD A WOMAN GOVERNOR. Bella Abzug observes that sexism surfaces particularly quickly when voters feel a woman's style challenges traditional notions of femininity. Says she: "If I were a man, they would...
Alarmed that the Egyptian decision could bring the negotiations to a halt, President Carter reached Sadat that evening. Next morning, Carter related at a campaign rally for New York Governor Hugh Carey, Sadat sent word that he would let the negotiators stay in Washington. Carter acknowledged that there had been "trouble in recent hours" over the Israeli settlement issue. But once again the President had skillfully stepped in at a crucial moment and saved the talks...