Word: mating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unruly, facetious vice-presidential nominations from the convention floor, but McGovern was saying to the delegates that he did not mind because Senator Thomas Francis Eagleton of Missouri was so clearly a superior alternative to Spiro Agnew. Only moments before, Eagleton had stood on the podium with his running mate, arms raised in triumph, a partly dazed but wholly rapturous grin spread across his boyish, Jack Lemmony face...
Eagleton's announcement heightened speculation about who McGovern's new choice would be. According to a copyrighted story in yesterday's Boston Globe, McGovern has already made his choice and has tapped Lawrence F. O'Brien, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to be his running mate...
...this century, fully one-third of the elected Vice Presidents have, through tragedy or election in their own right, ascended eventually to the White House. With the odds heavily favoring his reelection, Richard Nixon, it could be argued, faced no decision more important than his choice of running mate. Last week he made his choice, and to many, friends as well as foes, he seemed for once to have reneged on the principle he espouses in so many other areas, and taken the easy way out. He retained Spiro T. Agnew as his running mate, offering the narrowly partisan...
...places 79% of the graduates. Half of RCA's nontenured faculty lack college degrees, but nearly all have job experience. Such a practical approach attracts students like Angelo Miranda, 24, who briefly considered going to college, then decided, "What I'm really after is money." His bench mate, Robert Sandberg, 19, a dropout from the City University of New York, agrees: "As a technician, you can still get rich." Katharine Gibbs, which graduates 2,000 secretaries a year from five East Coast sites, requires relentless drill in typing, shorthand and other office skills ("It's the most...
...even recorded temporarily for Mao Tse-tung. Finally, in a grace note that brought the convention to its feet cheering, the Alabama delegation cast all of its 37 votes for Eagleton, explaining that had Wallace been the nominee, he would have wanted the right to select his own running mate and McGovern deserved no less. When Eagleton was at last confirmed...