Word: howard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less federal income tax; ten had fewer men killed in Viet Nam. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd referred to the District's status as "conscription without representation." While conservative Republicans generally opposed the measure, Democratic liberals strongly favored it. There were some notable exceptions, however. Two G.O.P. presidential hopefuls?Howard Baker and Robert Dole?voted aye. So did onetime Segregationist Strom Thurmond, who needs every black vote he can get in a close reelection campaign in South Carolina. "Thurmond came over," said Civil Rights Activist Joseph Rauh, "and that was the vote that really made the difference...
...result of all this is that many Democratic politicians are fluttering, wondering whether Kennedy is indeed positioning himself to run. G.O.P. leaders like Senator Howard Baker are convinced that he is. But Democrats have grown used to the old Kennedy ploy of keeping a high profile and then backing away. Nonetheless, many of them are eager for his candidacy, and a lot of their eagerness is based on dismay over Carter's bland leadership. "In New York," said one top Democratic leader, "I could raise a million dollars in ten days if Kennedy just gave the word." Even...
Melanie Cain graduated from high school five years ago in Naperville, 111., and set out to make her fortune as a fashion model. Soon she found a place with Manhattan's prestigious Ford Model Agency. She began going around with a celebrated race-track figure named Howard ("Buddy") Jacobson. He set her up as the head of her own modeling agency, named My Fair Lady. Her picture began appearing in the pages of Vogue and McCall's, even on the cover of Redbook, and soon she was earning more than $100,000 a year. "She was nice, considering...
...primary elections in Kansas and Tennessee. They proved once again that money counts; so do family name, hard work, good looks and-increasingly among a tax-and-inflation-weary electorate-a pledge to be frugal. From a national standpoint, the week's biggest winner was Republican Senator Howard Baker, 52, who clobbered five lackluster opponents in Tennessee by garnering 84% of the vote-a larger share than even he expected and one that fortifies his presidential ambitions. Highlights of the races...
...remodeling job in Boston's John F. Kennedy Federal Building included $40,000 for a teak-paneled HEW office. According to Howard Davia, the GSA's director of audits, "In essence, all the files and vouchers and statements of work done were phony...