Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...setting this age limit (ruling out anyone who has reached 46 by the date that this issue first appears on the newsstands), we had to exclude, often by a narrow margin, some remarkable figures. Treasury Secretary William Simon missed by eight months, and Adwoman Mary Wells Lawrence by 44 days. As it turned out, the difficult part was not finding 200 people who met our criterion of leadership but confining the list to that number...
...Marines and won a law degree before going to Washington as an assistant to his friend and former classmate, Ted Kennedy. Democrat Culver ran for Congress from a Republican district in Iowa in 1964, sweeping into the House on Lyndon Johnson's coattails and increasing his margin of victory in each of the next four elections. A prime mover for congressional reorganization, he entered the 1974 Senate contest when Harold Hughes bowed out and is favored...
...liberal G.O.P. reformers, Danforth has bypassed the old party establishment and helped break a 38-year Democratic stranglehold on top state offices. Though he lost a bid for the U.S. Senate in 1970, he was easily re-elected attorney general two years ago by an astonishing 460,000-vote margin and will probably make another Senate...
...corrupt, malodorous 57-year dynasty of Bosses Frank Hague and John V. Kenny. Since taking office, he has announced plans for a $2 billion renovation of the city's waterfront and for new housing in older Jersey City neighborhoods. Last year he won reelection by a lopsided margin to a full four-year term...
...alma mater, became mayor of Connecticut's second largest city by a nine-vote margin in 1971. Bridgeport's first Republican mayor in 44 years, Panuzio has given the 156,000 residents two years of tax cuts, created a Department of Aging to provide assistance and job training for older people, and operated one of the few self-sufficient transit systems in the state. Panuzio was re-elected by 2,000 votes in 1973, is now seeking the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination. Though his chances of getting it are slight, he figures to win wider recognition...