Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WEST. Rancher Bruce King, who also heads a butane company, won the New Mexico governorship from Republican Pete Domenici largely on the strength of superior experience: King was speaker of the state house of representatives and president of the state's constitutional convention last year, while Domenici had only a middling record as head of the Albuquerque city commission to offer...
...campaigner's total budget, earn fees in a Senate race ranging from $30,000 to $60,000. Between them they are involved in 13 different campaigns this year. Guggenheim is producing his persuasive films for four Democrats seeking election to the Senate and three running for governorships. Treleaven is, in effect, still handling the Nixon account; he is the man behind one governorship candidate and five Senate candidates-four of them specifically urged by Nixon to run. Guggenheim and Treleaven are meeting this year for the first time in an entirely appropriate manner-not in person...
...particularly altruistic about the Administration's course. Pressure from the courts to end de jure segregation remains strong. What is more, Nixon's political strategists plan to leave George Wallace with an empty issue in 1972. In Wallace's successful campaign for renomination to the Alabama governorship this spring, he scored points with white voters by pleading: "Give us back our schools." But, argues a White House aide, if Wallace raises that cry in 1972, Southerners are going to look around and see that their segregated schools have disappeared irretrievably...
...hear any more about "the solid South." The virtual re-election of George Wallace to the governorship of Alabama provides sufficient evidence of this myth...
...know whether my children have tried it or not," New York City's Mayor John Lindsay told his guest, "but I shouldn't be the least surprised if they have." His listener was Democrat Howard Samuels, who plans to challenge Nelson Rockefeller for the governorship of New York this year. And Samuels had good reason to listen, for his son, Howard Jr., 17, was recently charged with possession of hashish. As for the mayor, he does not advocate legalized pot, but fatherly figures that there are "a lot of irrational laws" on the books...