Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice between Nixon and McGovern becomes clearer, the McGovern strategists predict, their man will pick up the support of the Old Guard Democrats whose egos are now bruised, as well as many of the Independents, whose votes can be decisive. It is when general themes are translated into proposals for action that a campaign risks alienating many voters, and McGovern has been unusually bold-if sometimes confusing-in detailing his programs. The McGovern advisers contend that they have studies showing that his call for a $32 billion cut in the defense budget and his plans for redistributing wealth by shifting...
Raised in a black ghetto in Chicago, he is attending Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa. He worked as a $2.50-an-hour janitor this spring to help pay his way to the convention. On arrival, his visions of "big lights, luxurious seats, girls all over that you could pick up, free drinks, big parties up and down the halls of the hotel" were quickly shattered. He found that "the seats are hard, you can't see and I haven't had any time for even a few beers. There hasn't been a single party, just sleep...
Both the staid Star and the brash Daily News have lost money in head-to-head competition for the afternoon advertising dollar. Star President John H. Kauffmann expects to pick up both circulation and ad linage in the takeover and make the newly named Evening Star and Washington Daily News profitable. He also hopes to make it into more formidable competition for its sole remaining rival, the morning Washington Post (circ...
...dropped. "The question of guilt is not relevant," says Director Ennis ("Joe") Olgiati, 42. "Only behavioral change matters." The program excludes heavy drug users and those accused of major crimes (a separate program for 300 addicts will be tried experimentally next month), but Vera representatives in city courtrooms pick any other offender they think might respond...
Irving's easily daunted hero is Fred ("Bogus") Trumper, a monumental procrastinator with a talent for bungling. Bogus' hardscrabble effort to support his wife "Biggie" and infant son Colm by selling football pins and pennants is thwarted by a mob of fans who pick clean his display board. Seeing his existence threatened by "little things-errors of judgment, but never crimes" -Bogus begins identifying with Akthelt, the heroic warrior and lover in Akthelt and Gunnel-an absurd Old Low Norse epic he is translating for his doctoral thesis. And when Akthelt is told "Det henskit of krig...