Word: martinisms
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That notion comes out of a survey of 3,500 college teachers by two political scientists, Stanford's Seymour Martin Lipset and the University of Connecticut's Everett C. Ladd Jr. After asking a series of questions about issues and candidates, they conclude that the more conservative faculty members choose U.S. cars (with General Motors autos favored by the most conservative of the conservative). Liberals have a greater tendency to buy foreign models...
Carter was publicly embraced by Martin Luther King Sr., who declared: "I have a forgiving heart, so, Governor, I'm with you all the way." Detroit Mayor Coleman Young said that Carter's apology was "satisfactory" and that the furor over his remarks was "a phony issue." Echoed Paul Parks, Massachusetts' secretary of educational affairs and a black civil rights veteran: "The majority of black people across the country are staying with Carter. Some of them are shaky, but they're willing to forgive him. He's got a kind of thing about him that...
...Conference Board, a business research group, and Carolyn Shaw Bell, a strong advocate of greater progress for women. Also in Carter's advisory group: Lester Thurow, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a liberal who had a major hand in formulating McGovern's welfare proposals, and Martin Feldstein, of Harvard, who is sufficiently conservative to have been invited to join Ford's Council of Economic Advisers...
RONALD REAGAN is pushing a strongly conservative line, concentrating on budget cutting, and has committed the only notable economic gaffe of the campaign so far: his proposal to turn over to states and cities Government social programs that currently cost $90 billion a year. His chief economic adviser is Martin Anderson, senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, who now works for Reagan full time. Anderson, who served as a special assistant to the President during the early Nixon years, describes himself as a "free-market economist." He is author of The Federal Bulldozer, a denunciation of urban...
...Walter O'Malley. Warns Charlie Finley: "People have only so much money for food, for rent, for entertainment. Athletes are going to price themselves out of the market. I do not criticize the athletes, I criticize the owners for paying these unjustified, astronomical salaries." Says Yankee Manager Billy Martin, who took a 28% pay cut in 1950 when the Yankees brought him up from the minors: "There will come a day when players like Andy Messersmith won't be in the game. The owners will get together and decide they can't suffer them...