Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correspondent in the U.S. and abroad, a writer and senior editor in other sections, before he took over The Nation in the summer of 1965. His head researcher is Amelia North, who has been shepherding the section's girls through political campaigns since General Dwight Eisenhower ran for President in 1952. In all, a score of writers, reporters and researchers will be working in the section this election year...
...Hampshire, Democratic Governor John W. King, a Johnson loyalist, predicted that the President would "murder" him. Opinion samplers gave him 10% to 20%. Instead, he polled a stunning 42.2% of the Democratic vote to Johnson's 49.4%. With an addition al 5,511 Republican write-ins (McCarthy, astonishingly, ran third on the G.O.P. ticket), he trailed the President in the overall tally by a scant 230 votes...
...flower between them and Mc Carthy, he moved with the ruthlessness of a Victorian father whose daughter has fallen in love with a dustman." McCarthy was not about to submit meekly. The morning after the election, he flew to Washington for a meeting with Bobby. Aboard the plane, he ran into Johnson Loyalist Tom McIntyre, and unleashed one of the sly barbs of which he is a master. "You shouldn't be traveling first class this morning, Senator," said McCarthy...
With only seconds remaining before the start of the 220, Rittenburg took his first jump at six feet, which was about the limit of his capability in the event. He soared over with inches to spare, climbed out of the pit, ran over to the 220 starting line, and sprinted to a second place finish in another race he had never run in serious competition before...
Rittenburg is still running today. Late last January, he trimmed his weight by 20 pounds, entered the Boston Athletic Association Indoor Meet, and ran a respectable, though non-placing time in the hurdles. These "periodic comebacks," as McCurdy calls them, are just what you'd expect from Rit. He never recognized a limit on what he might do and there will never be another like...