Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Physically, Harvard is still recovering from the bumps and bruises of those two games, although everybody except centerback Gia Johnson, listed as doubtful, should be ready to play tomorrow...
Certainly Carter did not start the spiral. The blame for that is ingloriously bipartisan. The bulge began when Lyndon Johnson in 1966 failed to level with American people about the true costs of the Viet Nam War and refused to recommend an income tax increase. So the nation plunged deeply into deficit, and inflation roared from little more than 1% in the mid-'60s to 4.2% in 1968. Richard Nixon grossly worsened a bad situation by also using deficit spending and then clamping on controls; prices soared after they were lifted rising...
Griffin is attacking his opponent as a free-spending Democrat who would add to "the high cost of Levin." The Senator reminds voters of how he helped block Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas as U.S. Chief Justice in 1968 and Richard Nixon's nomination of Clement Haynsworth to the Supreme Court in 1969. Griffin also stresses, in current TV ads, the fight he made this year against the Panama Canal Treaties. Says he: "Next year I'll have even more seniority and my no will be even louder." Levin responds by scathingly calling Griffin "Senator No Show...
...Johnson runs through a few of his vocals, flipping on his deck which plays--among sax and acoustic and electric guitars and bass--a mechanical percussion line. "Radiator," he says airily into the mike...
...masse, their Keith Richards imitations, getting into it, encased by the cracked plaster of a boxing gym and the boxing posters (from Marciano to Frazier) which marked the time-honored Garden Gym. The "Snow...blind." The smoke drifted over from the grille, covering liquor breaths and camera clarity. Johnson led into some other songs behind his tapeband including "Catch a Fallen Star," the most impressive of the bunch. He spaced-out Lou Reed's "Pale Blue Eyes" (a testimonial to Hank Williams, also done by Patti Smith), leaving its tribute as poignant as novocaine...