Word: raying
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Bright Spots. For the most part, Republican bright spots were confined to wins by moderates and liberals who had not been identified with Nixon. Among the notable survivors: Governors William G. Milliken of Michigan and Robert D. Ray of Iowa; Senators Jacob K. Javits of New York, Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania and Charles Mathias Jr. of Maryland. The conservative Republican contingent in the House was devastated. Of the 162 members who ran, 36 lost; voters returned all but four of the 219 Democrats in the House who sought reelection...
TENNESSEE'S RAY BLANTON, 44, a roughhewn, former Democratic Congressman in the populist tradition, found himself matched against one of the few attractive young Republicans to emerge in 1974: Lamar Alexander, 34, a lawyer who had helped Senator Howard Baker and retiring Governor Winfield Dunn win elections. Alexander's main problem turned out to be general dissatisfaction with Dunn's Republican administration, which had doubled the size of the budget to $2 billion and presented the state's eastern region with a prison instead of the medical school it had wanted. All this, plus a strong...
...largely rural Wisconsin district where inflation was a top issue. The other Republicans who voted against Nixon all won, some by impressive margins. All of the anti-Nixon Democrats survived, including such Southerners as Alabama's Walter Flowers, South Carolina's James Mann and Arkansas' Ray Thornton. Committee Chairman Peter Rodino's margin in New Jersey over John Taliaferro was an overwhelming...
...Soon after the accident, Stephen Smith, Kennedy's brother-in-law, hired lawyers for some who had attended the party. The same two lawyers represented eight of the inquest witnesses. Said Ray LaRosa: "The lawyers coached us pretty good. We knew what to expect...
...journalist named John Converse takes up with a bored American expatriate woman in Saigon. She invites him to buy an interest in three kilograms of pure heroin. Once this deadly package is safely Stateside and distributed to her friends, Converse will earn $40,000. He agrees, persuades an acquaintance, Ray Hicks, to smuggle the heroin to California. There, Converse's wife Marge will take possession and pay Hicks...