Word: politicians
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...years since his exploits in space, Glenn, 61, has lost one race for the Senate, won another and served eight years in Washington. Even so, he is thought of more as a hero than a politician, an image likely to be reinforced with the release in October of a movie based on The Right Stuff, a somewhat irreverent but also heroic book by Tom Wolfe about the astronauts. As an undeclared candidate for the past four months, Glenn has tried to stay above the fray. When he does go beyond comfortable cliches on controversial topics, he tends to focus...
Glenn's political style is almost the opposite of that of his chief opponent. Mondale, 55, the consummate politician, is wooing a traditional coalition of Democratic voting blocs with calculated passion, soothing rhetoric and promises, promises. By the beginning of April he had raised $2.4 million, far more than any of his rivals...
Though the candidates at Monday's forum studiously avoided mentioning White by name, they will have to start pretty soon if they are to have any hope of victory. Candidates such as Langone. Lawrence S. DiCara '71--an able and knowledgeable politician who seems to have no real support base--and former MBTA Chairman Robert R. Kitey would do best to endorse front-runners such as Finnegan, Flynn or King. The Mayor is the real issue in this campaign: next to him, the issues only offer a pretext for repeats of Monday's counterproductive showcase...
...blessing in disguise. It could make it easier for him to modify and moderate the policies that have been pursued in his name. At this late, though not necessarily too late, stage, Reagan could shore up his image as a statesman, and hence his appeal as a politician, by salvaging something from the wreckage of arms control on which he or his successor might be able to build...
...most were ready to take Mondale at his word. He won instant credibility as a politician who had made peace with himself, except that it turned out not to be peace at all. Only two years later Mondale launched a campaign to convince himself and all Americans that he did not mean what he had said. He eagerly set out to become Jimmy Carter's Vice President, and made it. Now, in the early spring of 1983, he somehow had revived his presidential reputation. Here he was, leading all the Democratic candidates by a wide margin, and running ahead...