Word: raying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford for the vice-presidential nomination-in what now seems to have been a blunder. Baker, intensely ambitious and able, may well become an active candidate for the top job. Still another possibility, though he begins from a small base, is Iowa's enormously popular Governor Robert D. Ray, a tireless campaigner who often ends a day of politicking with a family snack at an ice-cream parlor. He will be only 49 when his fourth term-an Iowa record-ends in January...
...Tennessee. Brock still led narrowly in the polls when Sasser attacked his failure to disclose his finances; heir to a candy fortune, Brock was described by Sasser as "the candy man from Lookout Mountain." Fighting back, Brock tried to link Sasser to miniscandals in the administration of Governor Ray Blanton, but the ploy flopped...
...Dixy Lee Ray, 62, who was the first woman to head the Atomic Energy Commission, became the second woman in U.S. political history to win a Statehouse without having a husband who preceded her (the other is Connecticut's Ella Grasso).* Democrat Ray edged out her Republican opponent, County Executive John Spellman, 49, by about 125,000 votes...
...fallible selection," and in some ways it was. One of the 200 is now in jail for income tax evasion (New York City Councilman Matthew Troy). Some lost elections-but are doing well in other pursuits (Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander, who lost the 1974 gubernatorial race to Democrat Ray Blanton, is now a television commentator; Minneapolis Mayor Albert Hofstede, edged out by Charles Stenvig in 1975, is a bank vice president...
...received one of the fatter pay raises in history (TV Anchor Woman Barbara Walters). One rose from U.S. Ambassador to NATO to Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld). Two were in the running for the G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination until the final cut (Governors Christopher Bond of Missouri and Robert Ray of Iowa); another (Federal Trade Commissioner Elizabeth Hanford) last December married the man who finally got the nod, Robert Dole...