Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JAMES BUCKLEY, 53, would have won the convention booby prize had Schweiker not pre-empted it. New York's Republican-Conservative junior Senator permitted an abortive effort to win support for himself as an alternative to Ford or Reagan, thus diminishing his prime asset: an image as a non-politician who happens to be in politics. Buckley insisted his move was selfless -intended to prevent a first-ballot victory and permit delegates bound to a candidate whom they did not favor to vote their convictions on subsequent ballots. When a scant twelve delegates rallied to his tardily raised banner...
...firms offer short courses in personal security. One recently founded outfit, the Institute for Systematic Security Strategies in Germantown, Md., offers courses lasting several days in such fields as "protective driving" and electronic surveillance. Even junior colleges are getting into the act. Many have started teaching security services on the assumption that at least in this field graduates can always be assured of finding a decent...
...started toward the World Series." With an unusually large scouting staff, the Royals searched the high schools for players. Some of them attended the Royals' Baseball Academy in Sarasota, Fla. Young athletes were tested for speed, eyesight and reflexes. Those who scored well were sent to Manatee Junior College in the morning and in the afternoon studied baseball. Others went directly into a farm system staffed with coaching specialists. Says Kauffman: "There's more to learn in the minors than how to chew tobacco...
Students of the method tend to talk about it like converts to Christ. "It changed my life," says Junior Blanche Jones. "I came here to study chemistry. Now I'm thinking about teaching Spanish." Explains Junior Annie McLane: "The whole thing is, go ahead, make mistakes, but at least you're speaking. It builds your confidence...
...reported so many hidden obstacles in his way that if Carter had had to overcome them all, his nomination would have been even more impressive than it was. The Democratic Convention that others described as Carter-dominated, they found controlled by "left-of-center labor leaders," with Carter "the junior partner." To Evans/Novak, the choice of Mondale "could prove a costly miscalculation" (coulds and mights pepper this kind of writing). The kernels of fact that Evans/Novak begin with are often blown up like puffed wheat and made to serve and to obscure a dubious case...