Word: gung-ho
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...most polarized delegation was the 280-member California contingent, bitterly split between Carter and Brown. Jessica Govea, 29, a Chicana union organizer from Bakersfield, was gung-ho for Jerry Brown largely because he had pushed through the nation's first collective bargaining law covering farm workers. She perceives Carter as too sympathetic to Big Agribusiness, but, if he makes a "gesture" toward the United Farm Workers, would work for him against Reagan and probably against Ford...
...INTO THIS crisis comes Daniel Patrick Moynihan with gung-ho junior officer's rhetoric couched in references to Yeats and Locke. On the one hand he claims, we are the world's greatest democracy in terms of liberties and affluence--"find its equal," he has written. But Americans are also in a dangerous time, paralyzed by failure of nerve; we are threatened with our foreign policy "elites" making "an accommodation to totalitarianism without precedent in our history." Perhaps Nixon made his peace with Mao and Brezhnev, and detente was the order of election year 1972--but this has changed; Moynihan...
Suppliers cannot keep up with the demand. "I've been out of orange trees for two months, also lemons and kum-quats," says Miami Nurseryman Mark Ancet. "It's just gung-ho," notes Al Muller, at a Wilmette, Ill., nursery. "We're running out of Bibb lettuce, celery, carrots, and we can't get new supplies." In New England, the Finast supermarkets find 40-lb. bags of cow manure (at $1.99 a bag) selling at record rates...
...Bears may be terrible, but they are enthusiastic. Misfits all, playing-even miserably-gives them a shot at self-respect. Buttermaker considers this and, out of his beery fog, figures the kids deserve a break. His motives are not entirely altruistic, however. On a rival team, there is a gung-ho, supercilious coach (well played by Vic Morrow), and Buttermaker hates his guts...
Shoppers lingered longingly over jumpsuits in gung-ho cuts and colors, carefully fingered exotic fabrics. At Bloomingdale's in Manhattan, swimsuits and playclothes were selling as if August were around the corner. At I. Magnin in San Francisco, suavely tailored pants outfits and evening pajamas vied for attention. Many of the designs, such as Calvin Klein's apron dress and Oscar de la Renta's rhumba number (see color pages), are deftly droll. There were raincoats that managed to be practical and chic as well, T shirts that could be worn to the opera, sportsuits that could...