Word: mates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gaither disclosed this week that the service virtually abandoned attempts after Christmas to answer a stream of subscriber complaints left with the recorded "phone-mate" in the delivery service office--many requesting reimbursement for undelivered newspapers...
...once campaigned for the vice presidency, but found real fame as a TV pitchman for American Express, joked Bill Miller, running mate with Barry Goldwater back in 1964. Miller, now 61, was speaking at the Washington Press Club's annual congressional dinner on the ironies of presidential politics. "I lost the vice presidency by 16 million votes. I wasn't invited anyplace for six years," he noted. "In 1972, Sarge Shriver lost the vice presidency by nearly 20 million votes-and [now] he's running for President." Still, there was one dividend from the oblivion that followed...
Probably there is no need for THE BIONIC WOMAN (ABC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) either, unless you are a Six Million Dollar Man looking for a mate. But there is more wit inherent in the new show's conceit than there is in that of the original model: superhuman physical prowess is unexpected in a lass as comely as Lindsay Wagner. On the opening program, for example, Wagner, whose cover job is schoolteaching, delivered homilies on peace and cooperation while abstractedly tearing a telephone book in half. One hopes the show's writers will keep this spirit...
...delegation of seven editors and newsmen from New Hampshire, where he will be running head-to-head against Reagan in the nation's first primary, on Feb. 24. After repeated prodding, the President ticked off the names of eight men as being "fully qualified" to be his running mate in November: Commerce Secretary-designate Elliot Richardson; Senators Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, Charles Percy of Illinois, and Howard Baker and William Brock of Tennessee; and Governors Daniel Evans of Washington, Robert Ray of Iowa and Christopher Bond of Missouri...
...style-not depending on powerful politicians for endorsements-was compatible with mine.' I said his inclination to campaign directly with the people, in the streets, in the factories, in the barber shops and beauty parlors, represents the essence of the Democratic party. If I had disavowed my running mate, it would have weakened the ticket substantially...