Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alike-to jail for corruption. On primary night, Thompson staked out his theme for the November elections: "I'm going to talk a lot about one-man rule-and I don't mean Mr. Hewlett." In short, Thompson's main target will be Daley. Thompson is popular, but anybody who tries to topple Daley's men faces quite a job. Just ask Dan Walker, the only incumbent Governor to be knocked out in an Illinois primary in almost half a century...
...hard to win the support of all Liberals, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and M.P.s from Ulster, the overall majority of one now enjoyed by Labor theoretically enables Wilson's successor to hang on until late 1979, when the present Parliament reaches its statutory limit. But lacking a popular mandate, he will probably decide to seek an election, possibly in 1978. While this will not give him very much time to demonstrate an ability to tackle Britain's deep social and economic problems, if he needs help, Wilson will not be far away. "You will be able to count...
...Whitney's cotton gin on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "It's a great museum with its little cars and trains," observed the champ, who took time out in the capital to mug with a statue of Washington. "My gloves may be more popular," Ali added, referring to the mitts that in 1974 beat George Foreman in Zaire, "but the cotton gin did more for mankind. I'm a man; I'm not no cotton...
...beautiful swimmer, its last, Latin for tasty) is a reader's treat. Warner, a consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, has spent years studying the blue crab and his human harvesters in their natural habitat, Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. The result of his study is a piece of popular oceanography worthy of shelf space alongside Rachel Carson's classic Edge of the Sea and Henry Beston's Outermost House...
...mount the scaffold, the Stuart queen has at least the consolation of dying surrounded by admirers and absolved from sin. Elizabeth, on the other hand, in her zeal to save appearances is finally condemned by them, retaining her crown only at the cost of losing the friendship and popular support that gave it meaning...