Word: marvinism
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...call Joe Kraft pretentious, in a capital that also contains Marvin Kalb of CBS, is surprising. Ambitious might be a better word for the hard-working Kraft. He aspires to be as wide-ranging as Walter Lippmann once was but lacks Lippmann's rumbling, reflective authority. He gets around as Lippmann never did. Kraft can dispose of Jerry Brown one day, the Federal Reserve or neutron bomb the next, argue in another column that Carter follows "a policy of divine misguidance" (he has from the beginning condescended to Carter), then emplane to the Horn of Africa to see things...
...also wanted to become rich, and according to testimony last week in a Montgomery courtroom, this ambition led to her undoing. While state auditor, she began dabbling in her own business on the side, taking out 26 bank loans, mostly to speculate in land sales and help her husband Marvin expand his trucking business. Once installed as Alabama's $23,000-a-year treasurer, she quickly turned her new powers to personal use. Chief among them was authority over the cash in the state treasury, sometimes amounting to $550 million, which by law must be deposited in Alabama...
...received 130 loans from 58 banks. They totaled $2.9 million; half of them were unsecured. The money went into a variety of enterprises, including more than $400,000 into land development, $378,000 to Marvin's trucking firm and $75,000 for a movie distributing company. She invested $281,000 in Stars over Alabama, a Hamilton amusement park that never opened and mysteriously burned last summer. She even made a brief fling at manufacturing wicker furniture, sinking $14,165 into a company headed by her two children and their spouses...
...impact of his 1974 strategy can best be expressed by the anecdote that one of Bryan Dorn's campaign workers told Marvin Chernoff, the mastermind behind Ravenel's campaigns. After the worker helped an illiterate woman get to the polls, he asked who would be her choice. The woman replied, "I guess you'd better give me the television...
After warming the bench for the Los Angeles Rams, Joe Namath is ready for action. And he gets it on a train speeding through the Alps in the movie Avalanche Express. Broadway Joe and Lee Marvin have guns, will travel as U.S. agents delivering a KGB defector (Robert Shaw) to the West. Along the way they are pursued hotly by Maximilian Schell and a band of Russians, who ambush their train and cause, yes, an avalanche to come down on their heads. "I'm about sixth or seventh place in the cast," says Namath. But soon he will...