Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought pride and power to the region. Thus, the D.N.C. is already preparing for the July convention and the fall campaign on the premise he will be the candidate. Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss officially must remain neutral, but he also expects to avoid a deadlock or a bloodbath at Madison Square Garden. He told a party luncheon last week: "I made a commitment not to deliver a candidate to this party but to deliver a unified party to the candidate. And that, I assure you, is what I will do in the next 69 days...
...Carter's detractors wonder whether he knows that. No matter; in the euphoria of last week, most things must have seemed possible to Jimmy Carter, as he rode the crest of his campaign for the presidency. So certain was he, with good reason, of winning the Democratic nomination at Madison Square Garden in July that he began making a list of whom he might choose as a running mate. He says that his most important considerations are to pick someone who is qualified to step up as President if necessary, a person "compatible with me on basic issues and general...
...godsend for many shut-ins and others who are isolated from the community. For some enthusiasts, like Mrs. Patricia Schey ("Kissy Face") who monitors her "home base" 16 hours a day in Madison, Wis., it is more of a passion. Almost everyone, however, responds to what Manhattan Psychoanalyst Joel Kovel calls "CB's element of voyeurism." That aspect of the CB phenomenon has not been lost on Mitchell Brothers, the porno-film producers. They recently released an opus with the self-explanatory title C.B. Mamas...
Waiting List. Typical is a new minimal-care unit that opened this month at University of Wisconsin Hospitals in Madison. At present its 13 beds in semiprivate rooms are limited to cancer patients who are receiving chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy and must periodically return to the hospital for several days or even weeks. The patients are carefully screened. They must be able to walk about, eat and bathe without assistance, follow their varying schedules for medications, keep their rooms neat and plan their own amusements. In spite of the unit's lack of amenities, its occupancy rate...
...program it is called the "Giant Gyrating Gyro-Wheel," and that is probably as good a name as any for the contraption. Two or three times a day at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus has settled in for its spring visit, a British-born performer named Elvin Bale approaches the device, unlimbers its 40-ft. arms and sets both himself and the great wheel into motion. Thus begins what Ringling Impresario Irvin Feld says is "one of the most fantastic thrill acts the show has ever...