Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford is likable, unpretentious, undevious. He looks uncomfortable when stridently attacking his opponent. He appears similarly forced and unconvincing when he makes a blatant specific pitch for votes, as he did in the South with his contrived emphasis against gun controls. While he is certainly a bright man, his image as a verbal bumbler nevertheless is not totally unfair; he is also a man who can forget three times in a day which town he is in, as he did recently in Illinois. Far from an inspirational leader, Ford has a limited let's-not-rock-the-boat perspective...
...guess I've learned that you have to live with the bad, that you can't let one mistake destroy your confidence in yourself. Lots of outstanding people have made some mistakes in the past. The good ones come back. You don't let a bad pitch destroy your ball game...
...that very personal Carter pitch that lifts fieldworkers like Nick Nicholson through the tough days. He views Carter as a public healer. When sour voters challenge him-and they often do-about Carter's fuzziness, he tells them that in the end it is a matter of character. "There's no doubt that voters are cynical," says Nicholson, "but underneath they want to believe so bad." Then he stopped and thought for a moment. "You know, I'm a cynical guy myself," he said, "and I want to believe...
Carter, too, has his locker-room luminaries-like Tommy Nobis of the Atlanta Falcons and Homer Hero Henry Aaron. When Jimmy's Atlanta staff phoned to recruit Boston Red Sox Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, however, their pitch went awry. Yaz said he was pretty busy with the Massachusetts campaign of Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, a leading candidate for Speaker of the House. "Is he a Republican or a Democrat?" asked the Carter scout in Atlanta. "Democrat," replied an incredulous Yaz. "Well, tell him he'd better get on the Carter bandwagon," said the staffer. "In Boston," snapped Yastrzemski...
...Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, that was the way China's radicals denounced their political enemies. Last week, the former persecutors had clearly become victims. Within days after the arrest of the country's top radicals (TIME, Oct. 25), China had been roused to full fighting pitch against them. The marches and mass rallies seemed carefully designed to fuel the myth of a spontaneous, popular uprising against the discredited radical "antiparty clique," as well as to build up a wave of support for Hua Kuo-feng, who was officially proclaimed last week as Mao Tse-tung...