Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industry the billings are nothing to sneeze at; the Ford and Carter campaigns have advertising budgets that total at least $18.5 million (about $10 million of that for Ford). Perhaps in an effort to keep their smalltown, mainstream images unsullied, both candidates have avoided the sophisticated agencies of Madison Avenue. Carter's adman is Atlanta-based Gerald Rafshoon, while the Ford campaign is being handled by Bostonian Malcolm MacDougall...
...working conditions, they had no pay and poor living quarters. The Mormon Church asks that its missionaries pay for their missions themselves; if they cannot afford to live for two years in a foreign country, sponsors for the missionaries will be found to underwrite the costs. Kimball, originally from Madison, Wisc., lived in a house in South Korea for $70 a month, a fee that included room, board, and laundry. Stromberg describes the places he lived in Japan with one word: "Dumps." And though the paint may be peeling in his Quincy suite, Petersen says, "It's much nicer than...
...make speeches without a written [text] in front of him. You can't have a debate off a piece of paper." Nevertheless, many of the panelists believe Ford will benefit in the debates from his 28 years in Washington. Said Clyde Bullington, a blue-collar liberal from Madison Heights, Mich.: "Ford has the experience. Ford's been in politics longer. He knows the ropes." But many panelists believe this will be offset by Carter's legwork during the campaign. Said Alvin Harris, the black manager of a housing project in Danbury, Conn.: "Carter is more knowledgeable...
...Amazing Grace, and considers neither religion nor kinship particularly joke-worthy. While Carter does not stem-wind like a "How long O Lord?" Frank Clement or Huey Long, he is a truly Southern orator. He is given to nostalgia, imagery and hyperbole. He declared in his acceptance speech in Madison Square Garden, for instance, that the U.S. income tax structure was "a disgrace to the human race...
...figure cutting across the ice at Madison Square Garden had hardly changed since the Winter Olympics in 1968. After gliding off from Grenoble with a gold medal for figure skating, Peggy Fleming had spent eight years on the ice-show circuit, married a dermatologist and, by last week, decided to put her career into the deep freeze temporarily. The reason: her first child, due in January. "We wanted to have a baby for a long time, but it just didn't happen," said Fleming, 28. "I decided to go back to work and start thinking about other things. Sure...