Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Godwin, campaigning on a theme of traditional conservative "stability," attacked Howell as a tool of labor union bosses, a supporter of massive busing, and a McGovern sympathizer. Howell, espousing a new "responsiveness" in government, apparently failed in his neopopulist attempt for a coalition of liberals, blacks, and blue-collar workers...
Last year Nixon, still with only four letters, went up against mCgOvERN, who had five. What scared Nixon about the election: the Gallup Polls or his name? Why did he feel he had to tap phones, infiltrate opponents' campaigns, manufacture phony letters? Did he realize--and attempt to subvert--the rules of mathematical history...
...dedicated liberal, Ball was the original lawyer for Anthony Russo, Ellsberg's co-defendant in the Pentagon papers case. He has strongly supported such opponents of Ehrlichman's old boss as George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy. He also regards President Nixon's least favorite Chief Justice, Earl Warren, as "the greatest American of our age-perhaps of any age." So why Ball? "There's no mystery," says another Nixon foe, former California Governor Pat Brown. "Ehrlichman needed the best...
...awarded to a Russian-born Harvard professor whose theoretical constructs, practical applications of complex statistics and passionate devotion to controversial causes have kept him in the public eye. He is Wassily Leontief, 67, and over the years he has helped formulate or strongly supported proposals for world disarmament, George McGovern's propositions for income redistribution, and even a plan to solve New York City's growing trash problem by levying a heavy tax on every disposable commodity from glass bottles to plastic wrap...
...unflinching guardian of the rules governing the complicated wheeling and dealing in his business may temper the thrust of some recent Congressional developments. The House Agricultural Committee is beginning to investigate whether excessive speculation in commodities markets has inflated food prices; and Senators Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern have introduced bills calling for the creation of an independent Commodities Exchange Commission to oversee the trading of futures contracts in much the same way that the Securities & Exchange Commission keeps its eye on the sale of stocks and bonds...