Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unaccustomed role as a noncandidate, Humphrey is so popular he can scarcely believe it. Democrats rate him far ahead of the field, and his political support is already extremely powerful. Big labor wants him. So do many Congressmen and Governors. Even some of the liberals who showed contempt for him in 1968 and 1972 now point out carefully that they never were really comfortable being against him. He has renewed his ties to Chicago Boss Richard Daley. "People are happy to see me wherever I go," he says. "I've never had it this way before." He seems almost...
...situation there today is better than yesterday." So said President Ford last week during a visit to St. Louis when he was asked about the bloody civil war in Angola. The question was, better for whom? Militarily and diplomatically, the Soviet-backed Luanda government of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) appeared to be on the verge of some notable victories in what may very well be the turning point in the war. On the ground, it delivered a series of telling blows to one rival faction involved in the war, the U.S.-supported National Front...
...deserted Motown records building, Cass Corridor--one of the nation's most crime-infested districts--several middle-class neighborhoods, and Bloomfield Hills, the nation's wealthiest per capita suburb. On a typical ride down Woodward the motorist is not likely to see buses; public transportation has never been a popular cause in the Motor City...
President Bok, in a last-ditch attempt to win the Kennedy Library for Harvard, offers to trade the new Pusey Library for it. In a letter to UMass President Robert Wood, Bok writes: "Any university can do the easy and popular thing, establishing a John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library. But only a really interesting school would think of naming a library after Nathan Marsh Pusey...
Some Houses clearly are more popular than others, and that will not change under a forced assignment plan. The Task Force argues that "each House would have more of a chance to start from the beginning as far as a reputation was concerned." This minor and superficial change--which may not materialize--could well be the plan's only positive consequence...