Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sent a memo to Plains warning of a storm of protests. They were right-and the storm went beyond black leaders' upset about Bell's mixed record on civil rights during his 14 years on the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Editorial outrage ran the political gamut. The New York Times's James Reston blasted the nomination as "insensitive, willful, stubborn and even selfish." The Wall Street Journal found it "all too reminiscent of the Kennedy-Nixon tradition of choosing an Attorney General...
Born in Oak Grove, La., Marshall was sent at about the age of twelve to a Baptist orphanage in Jackson, Miss., along with his four younger brothers and sisters, after their mother died. At 15, he ran away and got a job making dentures in a dental factory. After a few months, he lied about his age to get into the Navy and served as a radioman in the Pacific during World...
Califano helped to dream up such Johnsonian innovations as the Model Cities program and the Office of Economic Opportunity. He also ran interference for Johnson in the 1966 creation of the Department of Transportation, a mammoth reorganization achieved in only eight months. One colleague recalls him, not entirely kindly, as "an empire builder who had a kind of abstract concern for the disadvantaged...
...freewheeling, gregarious politician, the rangy (6 ft. 2 in.) Bergland is married to a farmer's daughter and is the father of six children. Though he lost his first House race to an entrenched Republican in 1968, he ran a better-financed, more moderate campaign to win two years later. Last November he won a third term with 73% of the vote. When word began to spread that Bergland might be Carter's choice for Agriculture, the phone in his Roseau office began to jangle. The folks back home did not want him to leave...
...near Tel Aviv for the arrival of the first three of 25 American F-15 Eagle fighters that Israel has on order (U.S. officials later indicated that the day and timing had been set by Rabin). The arrangements outraged leaders of Israel's religious parties, since the ceremony ran so close to the Sabbath sundown that it violated the spirit of the approaching holy day. Only 20% of Israeli Jews are strictly observant, but the religious parties that represent them are a potent factor in the nation's politics. The largest of the groups, the National Religious Party...