Word: marylander
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...locales. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Dan Goodgame found himself climbing up the sideboards of mud-spattered beet trucks while covering the campaign of Idaho Republican Steve Symms, who won a second Senate term. Bonnie Angelo, who heads the New York bureau, searched a small town in Maryland with Democrat Barbara Mikulski, who would later win her Senate bid, as she tried to find the hall where she was supposed to speak. In Sheyenne, N. Dak. (pop. 307), Chicago Bureau Chief Jack White found supporters of successful Senatorial Aspirant Kent Conrad so enthusiastic about having a representative of the national media...
Playing opposite Bill Bradley in the congressional front court. Unlike Bradley, newly elected Congressman Tom McMillen of Maryland did not, as a professional basketball player, move well without the ball. Like the New Jersey Senator, however, he is a neoliberal Democrat, a Rhodes scholar and a victor in his first race for office. At 6 ft. 11 in., he is 6 in. taller than Bradley and a full 2 ft. taller than his Maryland colleague, Senator-elect Barbara Mikulski (a savvy point guard if there ever...
...with their retirement this year, they are each closing a chapter in the history of Congress. Russell Long of Louisiana is the sharp, smooth-talking, back-room Senate insider; Barry Goldwater is the quixotic loner whose conservatism was ahead of its time; Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland is one of the last of the moderate, progressive Republicans; and Tip O'Neill, the Massachusetts Representative and Speaker of the House, is the embodiment of traditional liberalism...
...years, combining a progressive outlook on social issues with a pragmatic one on international affairs. They are nearly all gone now, shunted aside by the more populist conservatism of the Age of Reagan. One of the last of that breed, the soft-spoken, easygoing Charles McC. Mathias Jr. of Maryland, is leaving the Senate in exactly the manner in which he served there: with quiet detachment and dignity...
Mathias' family had been active Maryland Republicans since before the Civil War, so it was natural for the former city prosecutor from Frederick to run for the House in 1960. He served four terms before running for the Senate in 1968 and squeaking into office in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans almost...