Word: lew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mindset" is the wordpeople use to talk about the state treasurer's race between incumbent Robert Crane and challenger Lew Crampton. Crane has been there for 14 years--back through the Volpe and Sargent years--and even if the state's electorate goes to the polls to elect a Republican governor, Crane and other Democrats who run for lower state offices always seem to stand pat through the storm...
Everyone seems to think that Lew Crampton is a nice guy. "An unusually attractive candidate," Frank says. "Unquestionably qualified for the job, personally and professionally," Crampton supporter and State Rep. Mel King says. Yet on the eve of the election, Crampton is fighting to be seen, saying, "Sure, visibility has been a big problem." He just came off a weekend "big blitz" of the state--on the road with three Winnebagos--to talk and press flesh and distribute some 50,000 pieces of campaign literature...
...what you will against Hitler, but he could have taught producer Lew Grade and director Franklin J. Schaffner a thing or two about captivating an audience. He would have told them that manipulation requires careful pacing, a dash of wit, and a lot of fervor. You've got to work and keep working, he would have said--you can't be sluggish or cowardly. It's all right to be simplistic and to prey upon people's most basic fears and desires, and it helps to be as perverse and merciless as possible, but you've got to have charisma...
Associated Press correspondent Lew Wheaton reported from Leon that entire blocks of the city of 100,000 people lay in ruins after the battle...
...gate at a high school gym. Today's stars are not only welcome at the big-name championships, they are free to jet from high-paying tournaments to still higher paying exhibitions to the stratospheric payoffs of staged-for-TV challenge matches. Once Jack Kramer, Lew Hoad, Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall dreamed of an organized tour circuit that would provide steady income to pro regulars. The current Big Three-Borg, Connors and Argentina's Guillermo Vilas -can now ply their trade on two multimillion-dollar tours, Lamar Hunt's World Championship Tennis and the Grand Prix...