Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, looked strong on each count. He was more articulate and agile at debate; he looked and sounded like a Senator. "I have been trained for 25 years to learn how to be a U.S. Senator," Wyman boasted. Durkin, on the other hand, seemed ill-fitted to be a politician. He had never before run for elective office; he spoke too stridently, uttered cliches and gave oversimplified answers to tough questions. Also a lawyer, he could claim just five years as the state's appointed insurance commissioner and three as assistant attorney general. He conceded...
...progress." His chief political adviser, Benjamin Palumbo, thought that was not sufficient progress. He urged Bentsen to speed up his campaign and try to become the front runner. Bentsen seemed to vacillate for a while and then resumed his deliberate pace. Palumbo quit the campaign this month. Says a politician who knows both men: "Ben is a crapshooter, and I get the distinct impression that Lloyd doesn't want to shoot craps." The meticulous multimillionaire is obviously not ready to go for broke...
...Gordon Sproul, 84, president of the University of California from 1930 to 1958, during which time the multicampus university rose to international prominence; in Berkeley, Calif. Sproul, who graduated from U.C. in 1913, became president of the university after ten years as its comptroller. But he was a canny politician - by 1947 he had managed to get more than $255 million from the state legislature. He offered high salaries and attracted an eminent faculty, while working hard to unify the university's southern and northern factions: at annual football contests between U.C.L.A. and Berkeley, Sproul switched sides at half...
...sound financial basis. If the board succeeds, Rohatyn is hopeful the Federal Government at last may lend some land of support to Big Mac bonds−a guarantee if the paper is subject to federal taxation. New York, in effect, has a new government with a more decisive politician, Hugh Carey, at its head. It is probably the city's last chance for a financial turnabout...
...relish of a storyteller. He manages to puncture the myth without deflating the life. From the moment she arrived in Paris in 1831, a 26-year-old berrichonne provincial fleeing from her small-spirited husband, rumor began placing her in bed with almost every author, artist, musician and revolutionary politician of her day. By Gate's count, however, Sand's liaisons numbered no more than 20−and (contrary to gossip) they were all with...