Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters' mood in Wisconsin this year remains unpredictable, oddly disengaged. "There is something sleeping, something going on under the surface in this state, and the candidates have not captured it yet," muses Harold Rohr, a painters'-union official in Madison. It is not apathy, reports TIME'S Gregory Wierzynski, "but something bordering on despair. People seem to suspect that the candidates are mere shadows-that if elected, they could not do much to change the rising prices, unemployment and heavy taxes." Says Mrs. Marguerite Wiegand, an Appleton housewife: "I watch television with a book in my hand...
PAULA GREEN, 45, the advertising executive who conceived the WE TRY HARDER campaign for Avis, found that women do not have to be No. 2 on Madison Avenue. She is president of Green Dolmatch, an agency that has billings of $4,000,000 from such clients as Seagrams, Hathaway Shirts and the New York Times. "Advertising," she believes, "is kinder to women because there is a need for creative people, whatever their sex, shape, race, parents, hobbies or hang...
...film Mario Puzo's novel about the powerful leader of a Mafia family than the protests began. The Italian-American Civil Rights League, a group headed by Joseph Colombo, the reputed don of one of New York City's five Mafia families, held a rally in Madison Square Garden, raising a $600,000 war chest to stop the production as a slur on Italian-Americans. Close to 100 letters of protest came in from Senators, Congressmen and New York State legislators. The Manhattan offices of Paramount's parent company, Gulf & Western, twice had to be evacuated because...
...high hills of Montana lie covered by one of the biggest snowfalls within memory. With a warming February wind, melted snows began swelling Montana's Madison River east of Butte. Soon the rising waters breached a dike, flooding low-lying farm land and forcing nine families in Three Forks to evacuate their homes...
...indicated that between performances he had been upstairs in the main sports arena. "I promise to return and fill the main stage," he said. "Who says America doesn't like poetry?" Whether or rather how America likes poetry is not the immediate question; the question is, can Yevtushenko fill Madison Square Garden as, say, Muhammed Ali has. The answer is no. Yevtushenko, whatever he is, is no matinee idol, no charismatic force and, by the way, he is not even a good poet. Yevtushenko: the name is more than...