Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign strategists live with at least one recurring nightmare: the President gets clobbered by a write-in vote for Edward Kennedy in New Hampshire's opening Democratic primary next Feb. 26, and then on the following Tuesday, March 4, he loses badly in Massachusetts to some popular Bay State Democrat serving as a stand-in for Kennedy. Since such a pair of defeats is no way to start a re-election campaign, the Carter forces have fought desperately to persuade Democratic Party officials in Massachusetts to delay their primary until April...
PROPHETIC SCENARIOS fleshed out into popular bestsellers share one common flaw--they invariably prove wrong. To his credit, General Sir John Hackett, a former NATO army group commander with a string of letters dangling from his double-titled name, recognizes this...
...pedestrians were getting used to the sidewalk intrusions of skateboarders, cyclists and joggers, they had to make room for another mobile urban menace: roller skaters. The U.S. now has an estimated 28 million of them, and a Gallup poll has found their passion to be the fifth most popular participation sport among teenagers, ahead of tennis and skiing...
...seat movie theaters and even a discothèque. Already scheduled are performances by the Bolshoi and Kirov ballet companies and by the Beryozhka folk dancers. One bit of bad news for devotees of the high life: there will be no beer halls like the popular one in Montreal...
...lost, with honor. But radical rhetoric kept linking dislike of the war with condemnation of the whole American system. Perspectives were blurred; hard-liners compared the U.S. to Hitler's Germany and listeners turned away. Today, as Jimmy Carter acknowledges the country faces recession, popular distrust of big corporations and the existence of a sizable underclass. And still most Americans can imagine no more radical cures than those of a 19th century liberal like Ralph Nader, who wants to make the system work by correcting its flagrant abuses. Moreover, in the left-wing view, the turbulent...