Word: politicians
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...anyone else in the race, and almost twice as many votes as anyone, including Sullivan, drew in the 1979 city election. He did even better in 1961, setting his personal all-time record of 5145 votes. He has never failed to top the ticket since, remaining the most popular politician in Cambridge for over two decades...
There have been victories for Walter Sullivan--his several stints as mayor, for example--and there have been setbacks--including a decade of losses to the liberals. But he is a politician, and takes his defeats in stride. Only once, he says, has he been truly disappointed. That was in the mid-1970s, when city liberals concerned about traffic congestion managed to block the planned construction of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Harvard Square. On his office wall there are several pictures of him and Kennedy touring possible sites for the library. Cambridge "was the only place...
...that is second in size and dedication only to that of the President himself ?and that trusts him more. He has a computer-driven fund raising organization, the Congressional Club, which has raised millions of dollars for Helms and dozens of other conservative candidates. He has a born politician's ease with a crowd, a saint's generosity toward individuals in distress?and a Malthusian indifference to human suffering on a larger scale. He is, in short, in the great tradition of amiable, infuriating, pious, callous, dangerous, ordinary and compelling characters who from time to time emerge to animate...
...could be the headquarters of any good ol' Southern politician almost anywhere, any time. The cluttered rooms are on the second floor of a Raleigh office building. The folks in charge are soft-spoken and unassuming, shying away from taking credit for any special genius or any real authority. Yet Jesse Helms' Congressional Club is the very model of modern, high-technology politics, a shrewd mating of computers and direct mail. Helms and his minions have built what amounts to their own nationwide political machine. It has combined newfangled fund raising with old-fashioned mud slinging to become...
...French return Banisadr and Rajavi, a demand that the French, with their tradition of granting political asylum, will not accept. Last week Banisadr declared that he might go to Sweden or Austria to continue his anti-Khomeini campaign. Swedish officials quickly denied having any contact with the exiled politician. Sweden has nationals of its own in Iran...