Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no better tonic for a President in trouble than a tour of the horizon aboard Air Force One. Red-carpet welcomes and cheering crowds in far-off places boost his morale and make him a world statesman, not just a politician, to the folks back home. Jimmy Carter prescribed for himself precisely that tonic last September: he was suffering a decline in the polls, and his closest adviser, Bert Lance, was fighting a losing battle for his job. Carter planned to visit nine countries in eleven days, starting Nov. 22. But last week he decided to call...
...oldtime politician used to say, when things seem mysterious in Washington, look for someone with an interest...
...place. Vellucci enjoys relating the story of how, in 1949, he decided to sell his small family restaurant in East Cambridge (the mayor claims among his culinary achievements the invention of the hero sandwich roll), and then went looking for a job. Naturally, the first place for a young politician to look in those days was the State House, so he finessed his way into an interview with then-Gov. Paul Dever. Dever, the story goes, was so impressed with Vellucci's reputation as a rising political star (he had already made a name for himself as a perennial School...
...political wheeler-dealing that was supposed to have vanished decades ago. When the Boston Phoenix ran the story in Vellucci's own words last June, it only gave credence to the impression some people had of the mayor: that despite his self-proclaimed independent label, Vellucci is a politician born and bred in the ways of the precinct clubhouse. Vellucci, of course, denies the assertion. "I was given that job, sure, but I had to qualify for it. I had to pass the Civil Service test. It was no real gift," he says. But the impression has lingered...
...rifle by foot, waiting to go into action," says Dr. Hans-Joseph Horchem, chief of the Hamburg division of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. In the near future, he predicts a rash of explosions and arson and at least one attempt to assassinate a leading politician or judicial official...