Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been offered a college presidency and a professorship in communications (he was a newspaper and television newsman for 25 years before being elected secretary of state in 1964). But the prospect he talks about most is his hazy concept of a "Third Force" in American politics, a kind of nonpartisan alliance of reform-minded citizens. Last week at his office in Salem, the state capital, McCall discussed his plans with TIME Correspondent John Austin...
...those wondering whether post-Watergate politics have become notably cleaner, a lamentable answer emerged last week: not much. The Washington-based Fair Campaign Practices Committee, a nonpartisan election-watchdog group formed in 1954, has received 49 complaints about the 1974 campaign thus far. Said the committee's executive director, Samuel J. Archibald: "There were so many Democratic challengers tasting victory this year, and so many Republican incumbents tasting defeat - both were tempted to use the knee in the groin...
...that one can maintain a proper distance from the fate of a particular team and still love baseball. And I accepted this the afternoon after that disheartening loss in mid-September when I repaired to Fenway's rightfield bleachers--450 feet from the plate--with a raft of nonpartisan Harvard students. My team won that day, however, and I was right back on the band-wagon...
Graham, an active supporter of local tenant groups, will also appear on the November ballot as an independent, nonpartisan candidate for state representative...
...former G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss. "I believe this will be a morale booster." In Massachusetts, Republican Governor Francis W. Sargent was quick to take advantage of the change in the political climate. Since only 19% of his state's voters are Republican, Sargent must maintain an almost nonpartisan position to win reelection, yet in the meantime he faces a tough fight in the primaries with Conservative Candidate Carroll Sheehan. Last week Sargent began to attack "blind, deaf and dumb" partisanship, rejecting for himself "the law that says loyalty to the party is the highest loyalty in government...