Word: racing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since, he has been burdened by the events of that night. It was the chief issue that kept Kennedy out of the 1972 presidential race and that caused him to abandon plans to run in 1976. Now Chappaquiddick is again an issue, and one that is already being used against him. Twice Jimmy Carter has alluded to it. Republican John Connally has been blunter. "I never drowned anybody," Connally retorted when asked by a reporter about scandals in his own past...
...faced with a build-up of aggressiveness in the NATO bloc," railed Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. U.S. leaders, he declared last week, were paying lip service to peaceful cooperation while actually fomenting "an atmosphere of fear" and "whipping up the arms race." With some of the toughest public language used by any Soviet leader in years, he even accused the U.S. of making "concrete plans and preparations for a war aimed against the U.S.S.R. and its allies...
...that has gathered unusual force. The objective: to head off the deployment in Western Europe of nuclear missiles aimed, for the first time, at the Soviet Union itself. The rest of the controlled Soviet press pulled out all the stops in cautioning about the dangers of a new arms race. Uniformed generals made rare personal appearances on television, to talk about "the peace policy of the Communist Party." Soviet officials in Moscow, unusually attentive to Western journalists, argued that the missile build-up was an attempt by the U.S. to circumvent SALT II. Communist parties and other left-wing groups...
...category include Louise Day Hicks, Dapper O'Neill and Pixie Palladino. All three were prominent in the anti-busing fight, and all three parlayed their efforts (and their Boston Globe headlines) into city dynasties. And while those dynasties faded four years ago when there were real issues in the race, this year, when there is little else to vote on, the names alone will work their magic...
Richard Bentubo, the smiling owner of Richie's Arco gasoline station, is raising some eyebrows in the year's City Council race...