Word: leon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign manager to Rep. Leon J. Lombardi, the only Republican candidate, was quoted last week saying that despite receiving the endorsement of the party's non-binding convention. Lombardi may not get enough signatures...
...picturesque Ponce de Leon Park, which seated 14,000, and where 12,000 patrons were regularly counted, there was a magnolia tree in center field. It was slightly out of range for everyone who ever hit there except Eddie Mathews, who had the only inside-the-tree home run. Major league teams barnstorming north from the spring camps always stopped off to play the Crackers. In 1947 Jackie Robinson first set foot out of Florida there, and 27,000 people overflowed the park. The Ku Klux Klan promised that someone would be shot. Nobody...
...Amara, president of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif.: "Anything that you forecast is by definition uncertain." Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM, would surely have agreed, and perhaps not too long after forecasting "I think there is a world market for about five computers." Leon Eplan, ex-president of the American Institute of Planners and now chairman of the city planning department at the Georgia Institute of Technology, says that the planning profession has finally been chastened by the uncertainty of technological change. Says Eplan: "When I started my career, I was predicting 20 years into...
...brief, glorious moment, the Left was united. Trotskyists and Marxists, Social Democrats and Centrists, all mixed in harmony. It was just after the Writers' Congress, in 1936, when Leon Blum's Popular Front government came to power. Fascism was the common enemy and the glue of disparate ideologies...
...restate and renew the faith" on the one hundredth anniversary of Roosevelt's birth. And other speakers--including Parliament member Shirley Williams--joined their voices to his in calling for a reemergence of the Roosevelt coalition of labor, liberals and minorities. Last came a note of outright optimism from Leon Shull, national director of the ADA: "The liberals have been through twenty difficult years, but this present mood is very upbeat. There is a sense of a nationwide turnaround. People are beginning to see that the Reagan program won't work...