Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...project oneself, "Kane" is too dark and heaving a work to have dignity; "Kane's" immaturity makes it condemnatory. It challenges the order of things, it's disruptive. Welles and the young people who made the movie weren't interested in romanticizing the old doffers and tyrants who ran things...
...could not have won "without us," only white Southerners can say that he succeeded "because of us." Indeed, the "Scammenberg" thesis is that Southern whites, in giving Carter "the margin of difference," abandoned their natural conservatism to such a degree that "the great paradox" of 1976 was that Carter ran strongest in the region where recent Democratic presidential candidates had been weakest. Because of white disaffection with liberal national candidates, the percentage of the vote won by Democrats in the eleven Southern states slipped from 50.5% in 1960 to less than 30% in 1972, while the number of electoral votes...
...Assistance to a bank in which Flood owned stock. A Mountain Top, Pa., real estate development called Crestwood Hills ran into financial difficulties in 1974: then it became part of a Luzerne County housing project subsidized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and was able to make some of its payments on a $3 million mortgage issued by the First Valley Bank, in which Flood owns stock. Investigators are exploring a possible conflict of interest in Flood's dealings with...
...Grubman and heavyweight John Sefter, who also ran his record to a perfect 26-0 as he swept the unlimited division, the Tigers ended Lehigh's three-year reign as Eastern champions. Sefter pinned all four of his opponents and carried off the trophy cup for the least mat time during the tournament...
...most popular subject of the pundits' presidential speculations is California Gov. Jerry Brown. Although a latecomer to the 1976 contest for the Democratic nomination, Brown dealt the Carter candidacy some stunning, if ultimately not mortal blows by beating Carter in the last six primaries in which they ran head to head. Esquire's national affairs editor Richard Reeves, who wrote one of the earliest profiles of Brown back in 1975 in which he characterized him as "the most interesting politician in the U.S..," has a long piece on Brown in last month's issue. Reeves argues that a Brown candidacy...