Word: popularized
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Much of the credit for the electoral gains belongs to the team around Brandt (see box, page 32). In pre-election polls, Brandt trailed both Kiesinger and his own Economics Minister Karl Schiller, who emerged as West Germany's popular politician. But Socialist publicists wisely played up the theme, "we have the right...
Twin Evils. Britain's popular opposition stems overwhelmingly from a fear of rising prices. Because of substantial agricultural subsidies, food prices...
White Hunter Patrick Hemingway of Kenya, visiting the Soviet Union for the Ninth International Congress of Game Management, was astonished to find that his name made him the center of attention. "I never thought my father was so popular in Russia," Patrick said, as reporters and their interpreters queued up. "I'd like to know whether it was because of his talent as a writer or his human qualities." Young Hemingway, whose motto is "to shoot, to write, and to tell the truth," was taken hunting by his hosts, and missed a long shot...
That Grin. A certain distance between reporters and the press secretary is probably inevitable. "There can never be a total meshing," says Ziegler. Yet he is personally popular with newsmen, who consider him a decent fellow in difficult circumstances. As a technician in planning the care and feeding of reporters on presidential trips, Ziegler is rated four stars. The smallest details-down to what sort of wardrobe is necessary-are handled with the smoothness that characterized the Nixon campaign...
Behind all the maneuvering is the scheduled airlines' growing fear of the increasingly popular cut-rate charter lines, which offer high-season round-trip Atlantic fares for as little as $150. The scheduled carriers are particularly disturbed by abuses of the "affinity rule," which decrees that only members of bona fide organizations can take charter flights. Recently, a group calling itself the "International Order of Old Bastards" arranged a charter trip from the U.S. to Mallorca. Unamused, Pan Am executives complained to the CAB; meanwhile the flight was canceled...