Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Maurice Evans is the guest star in "The Wounded Time Affair," in which he plays a nonagenarian politician who is fed a youth formula by his fiancee (Vera Miles). First of two parts...
They had not reckoned on Kamaraj, a tough, old-line politician, who controls Madras state; he is not above putting the arm on businessmen and just about everybody else in sight to fill the party's coffers. He has ruled himself out for national office, because he speaks only Tamil. On the news of Shastri's death, he had flown from his home in the south to Delhi, muttering: "What to do? Unity! Indira?" In Delhi he kept the thought to himself and did his best to find a candidate with the widest support. Neither the syndicate nor Kamaraj wanted...
...pity the people who elected John Lindsay. I remember no other politician who so quickly made such an ass of himself. If the people who protested the loudest about the strike had had relatives in the fight for higher wages, would they be so against the strike? Good for Michael Quill and his cause...
...Solis Ruiz, 52, Minister of the Movimiento Nacional, Spain's bureaucracy-clogged official party, and boss of its labor syndicates. His jowls are heavy and blue, his head is bald, and his speech is thick with the accents of Andalusia, but Pepe Solis is probably the sharpest practicing politician in the land. The father...
...good part of his time inveighing against "social tinkering" and "big-brother, paternalistic government," has refused to rule out support from the far-right wing by declaring: "I am not going to submit a loyalty oath to anyone who votes for me." But Reagan, calling himself a "citizen-politician" and pushing the theme of a "creative society" for Cali fornia, also preaches that government must do something about problems like smog and unemployment, acknowledges that such programs as social security and medicare are here to stay. Anyway, as Reagan sees it, the main energies of California's Republicans need...