Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then there's the self-consciously artistic way Horovitz sandwiches the action between the refrain of a popular song wafting in from the wings. The sappy, off-key message is that Murph and Joey, poor lost crime-ridden souls, are "lookin' for your door and can't find it." Horovitz's technique is too glib, too conventional...
...expected to make a pro forma appeal for all Americans to vote, his forces were more selectively keying their telephone banks and other get-out-the-vote drives to his areas of known strength. Even if the turnout is in the low 50% range, Carter could win a thin popular-vote edge but lose in the Electoral College. More probably, how ever, this would enable Carter to hold a slim popular-vote margin that could translate into a substantial electoral victory. At 55% or better, he is generally conceded the election...
RHODE ISLAND. Richard Lorber (D) v. John Chafee (R): Auto Dealer Lorber faces a popular ex-Governor. TENNESSEE. James Sasser (D) v. Incumbent Bill Brock (R): Brock could go on to bigger things-but he has to beat Sasser first and is trailing. VIRGINIA. Elmo Zumwalt (D) v. Incumbent Harry Byrd (Independent): Admiral Zumwalt is a tough salt, but this perch has been for the Byrds since...
...Israel's 35% inflation and the mushrooming Yadlin scan dal but also for failing to involve party functionaries in his administration. Ultimately, there is a chance that neither Rabin nor Peres will emerge victorious. Their fratricidal rivalry could split the Labor Party so badly that it will lose popular support at the polls and the backing of some of its coalition partners, thus allowing a non-Labor bloc to rule Israel for the first time in its 28-year history...
...popular Literary Gazette is spearheading the no-smoking drive. It has urged more research into antismoking pills, wants warnings inserted into cigarette packs about the hazards of smoking, and has suggested the creation of a state agency to propagandize against smoking. The Litgaz in fact is already doing some effective propagandizing of its own: one cartoon recently published in its pages shows a man and woman trying to kiss, only to be blocked by their long cigarettes. Another depicts a sickly looking man holding to his head a pack of cigarettes in the shape...