Word: mcgovernment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Best Foreign Film, over the gross and grossly overrated but commercially successful Seven Beauties. The harshly critical Harlan County, U.S.A. won as Best Documentary. Things were getting so radical that even a dyed-in-the-wool, if not so endowed in the head, liberal like Warren Beatty (McGovern benefits in '72, and all that) sauntered on and suggested that to add some political balance he should put in a good word "for Goldwater and Reagan...
...Since the Senators are generally in more demand for speeches and those who are lawyers are often of more value to law firms, their outside income is often higher than that of House members. Senator Hubert Humphrey, .for example, earned $81,000 in speaking engagements in one year, George McGovern $80,000. (Humphrey has never been secretive about such benefits; a sign in his Waverly, Minn., home proclaims: THE HOUSE THAT WIND BUILT.) Yet the limitation is expected to pass. Explaining the prevailing sentiment, one supporter of the code said: "People who come to the Senate rich...
Grandmaison was the campaign director for Sen. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.) in the 1972 New Hampshire presidential primary...
...said Robert Strauss shortly after he was chosen to be Democratic national chairman four years ago. He seemed to be taking on an impossible task. The fractured and fractious party had just gone down to a disastrous defeat with Candidate George McGovern, who carried only one state (Massachusetts) and the District of Columbia. Through a combination of shrewd politicking and good-humored bullying-"He is the only person I know who can call you a son of a bitch and leave you laughing!" says an admirer-Strauss succeeded brilliantly in reconciling the party's warring wings into a reasonably...
...MacLaine shows no sign of ever planning to leave the business. Though she vocally supported George McGovern for President in 1972 and last January performed at Jimmy Carter's Inaugural, Shirley has pushed politics into the wings. She is considering a return trip to China once her book is finished, and thinks a Broadway musical would also be nice, especially if she could work on a New York movie at the same time. But MacLaine will keep on dancing, she insists, "as long as my legs don't give out and the people keep coming. My permanent existence...