Word: jims
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
David Avison and Jim Hudson, through...
...since the Democratic convention in mid-July Fallows has served under chief speechwriter and novelist Patrick Anderson, who says he cannot think of anyone who has joined the staff since the New York nomination "who has gotten to have more access to the governor than Jim has." Fallows and Anderson travel with Carter in his plane, Peanut One. They work on speeches in their shared hotel room and on the typewriters at the back of the plane during flights and campaign stops. Fallows also attends Carter's major issues speeches and appearances at rallies. At these "Roman gladiator type events...
Fallows also senses that he has broken down some of Carter's reserve. "He's very slow to extend trust, and I feel he's extended some tentacles of it towards me. As far as an inner circle would imply somebody who is called in and asked 'Well, Jim, what do you think about the way the campaign's going,' that's not the case...
That is what Judge Martin B. Stecher of the New York State Supreme Court has done in a case involving Jim Bouton, a baseball pitcher turned TV sportscaster (and now TV series actor). In 1971 Bouton enlivened one of his news spots by taking an interview with Alex Webster, then the coach of the stumbling New York Giants football team, and running part of it backward on the air with no sound. Webster was not amused by the gimmick, which made him look like a demented Donald Duck. Claiming that he had been portrayed as a "dullard and a stupid...
Everyone familiar with the Jim Kubacki story knows that he missed last year's upset with a shoulder injury, which makes Princeton the only Ivy League team in the world never to have been defeated by a Kubacki-quarterbacked team...