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...East effort was a successful example of the negative campaign genre. Incumbent Democrat Robert Morgan was portrayed as a man who had "been taken in by the ultra-left-wing McGovern liberals in the U.S. Senate." In fact, Morgan was among the most conservative Democrats in the Senate. East's ads charged that Morgan had voted "to scrap the B-1 bomber." Morgan, in a 39-page postcampaign rebuttal to the East ads, said he had voted twice for the B1, voting against only the last-ditch effort to build five prototypes as a bailout for the manufacturer...
...murder the celebrated architect during a musical-comedy performance on the roof garden atop the White-designed old Madison Square Garden. For the film adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's fictive replay, Ragtime, Director Milos Forman, 49, interviewed hundreds for the part of Nesbit, then settled on Elizabeth McGovern, 20, after he saw her in Ordinary People. The young actress seems well outfitted for her new role. "There was nothing Evelyn Nesbit wouldn't have done," says Elizabeth. "It gave me a great sense of freedom...
November 7--Richard Nixon wins re-election by a landslide; Sen. George S. McGovern (D.S.D.) carries Massachusetts...
...McGovern, vice president of personnel at the Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco, who has begun a review of her firm's hiring of M.B.A.s. Concedes Arjay Miller, who left Ford to head Stanford's business school from 1969 to 1979: "I've never said this before, but I do think some firms are paying M.B.A.s too much money...
...defeated McGovern ruefully dissents: "Keep in mind that Ab Mikva comes from Chicago. No way is anyone from Montana or South Dakota going to agree that the N.R.A. is a paper tiger...