Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks over with her father how to handle the thorniest questions, and she has faced down more than one interviewer with the icy calm and official poise only a politician's-perhaps only a President's-daughter can so effectively command...
...makes up the bulk of his net worth of $300,000. His Democratic opponent next fall will be Brendan T. Byrne, 49, a former superior court judge who likes to recall having been described in the late '60s by Mafioso Angelo ("Gyp") DeCarlo as a politician who could not be bought. Indeed, he likes the tag so much that he used it as his campaign slogan and rolled to an easy victory in a state clearly surfeited with scandal...
...print a story exposing Lambton by name. Instead, they gave the photos and tapes to Levy, sent him packing without a penny and informed Scotland Yard of what was going on (the police already knew). The paper then published an article saying that authorities were investigating an unnamed politician entangled in a vice ring. Levy, meanwhile, took his enlarged stock of material to People and demanded ?45,000 ($112,500). He quickly settled for $1,875 down, with a promise of $ 13,125 later. The cash was enough to take Levy and Norma to Morocco...
...burdens the world bore this year were no less painful, no less unwieldy than the threats to self-determination and human equality to which past years have made us accustomed. But local burdens seem heavier, because after years of radical protest and finally the defeat of even a liberal politician clearly better qualified than Richard Nixon to be President, national forums seem a less appropriate focus for change. But local energies, like today's women's protest, and whatever difference exists between the consciousness of the Class of '73 and that of the classes of 10 or 50 years...
From Career objective: Politician, by Michael Bernick '74, which shows that Watergate has had no dampening effect on the aspirations of five of Harvard's best and brightest...