Word: j
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHOOSING Stevenson makes some sense. Whether in this strange election Carter will pay attention to what makes sense is a different question. What Jimmy must pay heed to, however, is clout--and that's a word Richard J. Daley put in the American vocabulary. If Daley so desires, he can bring a tremendous amount of pressure to bear on Carter to pick Stevenson. "Hizzoner da mare," as he is known to his Chicago friends, possesses hundreds of I.O.U.'s just waiting to be collected on. For years, Democratic politicians from across the country have come hat in hand to Daley...
...Benjamin J. Stein...
...roman à clef was once a cosy affair. But one touch of TV makes the whole world kin. Readers will have no difficulty in making out the shaggy outlines of Presidents J.F.K., L.B.J., R.M.N., not to mention Henry Kissinger (Carl Tessler in the book), J. Edgar Hoover (Elmer Morse) and others, including, eventually, E. Howard Hunt (Lars Haglund), who (yes, indeed) is planted on President Monckton...
Idea in Rehearsal. At Coca-Cola, which signed on as a backer because Chairman J. Paul Austin, a chum of Lerner's at Harvard in the late 1930s, had been looking for "something meaningful" as a Bicentennial project...
Like a confident businessman, J. Lawrence Joyce walked through the Buildings and Grounds office yesterday where he will soon be the director, introducing himself to employees and greeting by name one man whose picture he remembered from the staff book...