Word: petersburg
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Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) in 1904, Kosygin came from modest beginnings. The son of a lathe operator, he held a series of managerial jobs in the Leningrad region, until he began a spectacular rise to power in the late 1930s. Escaping the Great Purge that dispatched millions of others to Stalin's Gulag, he became mayor of Leningrad. By 1939 he had ascended to membership in the ruling Central Committee...
DIED. John S. Pennington, 56, who as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal revealed vote fraud in a 1962 Georgia state senate race and turned the apparent loser into a winner, giving Jimmy Carter his first political victory; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Only two months ago, Carter told Pennington, who moved to the St. Petersburg Times in 1977: "I never would have gone for office again if I had lost that...
...herself as a "Maitland housewife." But as accustomed as they are to a good scrap, the two candidates have so far kept the gloves on. Both tirelessly remind voters of their records and promise to focus on pocketbook issues in the Senate. Standing in a drizzle in downtown St. Petersburg last week, Gunter told an elderly crowd that he would fight for improvements in Medicare and for banning all mandatory retirement. The next day, Hawkins, campaigning in brilliant sunshine in Port Saint Joe, promised to seek a Senate investigation to determine whether, as she suspects, the U.S. has sufficient...
Carter's difficulty in restraining himself was evident on Friday, when a local television interviewer in St. Petersburg, Fla., asked about Reagan's charges that the President was considering taxing Social Security benefits and tapping private pension funds to help revitalize ailing industries. Snapped Carter: "Completely false . . . It's difficult to respond to ridiculous things like this." He vented his frustration by attacking Reagan: "A lot of his advisers are afraid of what he would say in a free and open exchange of ideas . . . [his calls] for injecting American military forces into place after place around...
...city of St. Petersburg, Fla., was named by Businessman and Railroad Builder Peter Demyanoff-Demens, who came from St. Petersburg, Russia...