Word: mating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political story that summer was the Democratic nomination of George McGovern for President, and then came the controversy over his running mate, Senator Thomas Eagleton. Watergate submerged into the murk like another Loch Ness monster. TIME letter writers, however, consistently took a more critical view of President Nixon than did the voters as a whole. As of Election Day, TIME's mail ran roughly 4 to 1 against Nixon, compared with his 60.7% majority of the popular vote...
...Tweedy has a breeding theory based on the belief that every horse, male or female, has some defects; the trick is to cross bloodlines so that the dam's virtues cancel out the sire's flaws and vice versa. According to this theory, she had the ideal mate for Bold Ruler-a mare called Somethingroyal, daughter of a very different kind of sire named Princequillo...
...Post, also contained cop ies of hospital records of Democratic Senator Thomas Eagleton's treatment for mental illness. The Post reported that the papers had been there before Eagleton's shock treatments were publicly reported, leading to his withdrawal as George McGovern's vice-presidential running mate. Did the White House do anything to plant the first stories? It seems unlikely, but it is typical of the climate created by Watergate that the question was being raised last week...
...Palm Desert, Calif. When his skill as a Washington, D.C., city commissioner and witty raconteur caught the attention of President Roosevelt, Allen graduated to the role of presidential confidant, brightening the high office with his folksy low comedy. He helped persuade Roosevelt to select Harry Truman as running mate in 1944, then later emerged as a member of Truman's own "Kitchen Cabinet." When his old friend Dwight Eisenhower, whom he had met during World War II, won the presidency in 1952, the affable-and durable -Allen became Ike's frequent golfing partner and companion...
Curtis Haydn, Goodman's roommate and running mate, said yesterday that "we have no ideas or real platform, but we all dress in trenchcoats, sunglasses, and nothing else...