Word: lamar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TENNESSEE'S RAY BLANTON, 44, a roughhewn, former Democratic Congressman in the populist tradition, found himself matched against one of the few attractive young Republicans to emerge in 1974: Lamar Alexander, 34, a lawyer who had helped Senator Howard Baker and retiring Governor Winfield Dunn win elections. Alexander's main problem turned out to be general dissatisfaction with Dunn's Republican administration, which had doubled the size of the budget to $2 billion and presented the state's eastern region with a prison instead of the medical school it had wanted. All this, plus a strong...
ALEXANDER v. BLANTON If Republican Lamar Alexander, 34, is worried about trailing Democrat Leonard Ray Blanton, 44, in the Tennessee gubernatorial race, he is the last one to show concern. Seasoned political observers are scratching their heads over his studied coolness in the face of possible defeat. But they figured that he must know what he is doing. He managed the successful campaigns of both Senator Howard Baker and Governor Winfield Dunn. Two weeks before Alexander won the primary for Governor, he was considered to be running a poor third. His forte is catching...
Mostly Ashes. The Republicans are holding their own only in the South, which never did sour on Nixon. Perhaps the freshest political face in the region belongs to Tennessee's Lamar Alexander, 34. Energetic and coolly intelligent, Alexander is given a good chance of becoming Governor by defeat-big three-term Democratic Congress man Ray Blanton. But the Democrats are not without promising candidates of their own - most notably Arkansas' Governor Dale Bumpers, 49, who is expected to win a Senate seat handily after having beaten the redoubtable Senator William Fulbright in the primary...
...Lamar Alexander, 33, rarely mentions any more that he was a White House aide to Richard Nixon in 1969. A graduate of Vanderbilt and New York University Law School and a former newsman, Alexander coordinated Tennessee Republican Howard Baker's Senate race in 1966 and was campaign manager for Tennessee Governor Winfield Dunn in 1970. Now he is a candidate himself for this year's G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination. Chairman of the state's Council on Crime and Delinquency, Alexander has made a point of announcing, "I'm going to disclose every single contribution I get although...
...W.F.L., he put together the American Basketball Association and the World Hockey Association. By creating 34 new teams in three major sports in the past eight years, Davidson has become an acknowledged master builder in a field that includes such lusty franchise spawners as Football and Tennis Tycoon Lamar Hunt...