Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help him transform the program, McLaughlin brought in a new staff. Terry O'Connor will assist him with the varsity, and former Notre Dame star Ray Martin will run the freshman team...
...little to crow about, but not much to complain about either. They split the two gubernatorial races. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Brendan Byrne, whose self-effacing campaign style consists of a strained smile and straight-arm salute, came from way behind to swamp Republican State Senator Ray Bateman, who tripped up in trying to propose an alternative to the unpopular state income tax. Virginia's Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton easily moved up in rank by beating Democrat "Howlin' " Henry Howell, a big-business-baiting populist who can make the Lord's Prayer sound like...
...Howell was his own worst enemy in Virginia, Republican Ray Bateman precipitated the re-election of Governor Byrne in New Jersey. Byrne had become a most unpopular figure (last April, according to a Rutgers University poll, only 17% of New Jerseyans thought he was doing a good job), and his lifeless image led many Democrats to dub him "one-term Byrne." But in order to win the Republican nomination, Bateman had to carry the conservative vote, which he did by strongly opposing the state income tax, and that position gave Byrne a chance to go on the offensive. The Governor...
After receiving information from the four key advisers, plus occasional advice from Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps or Labor Secretary Ray Marshall, the President reaches decisions pretty much by himself. He rarely meets with the inner four as a group; instead he hears them out individually, acting as a stern father confessor demanding a mountain of documentation to back up every policy proposal. Says one aide: "He will decide in Schultze's favor on one issue and then in Blumenthal's favor on the next. There is no principal economic policymaker outside the President...
...workers, living on a $30 a week union allowance, the weeks ahead and the upcoming holiday season leave little to be thankful for. For the students, more weeks of the strike mean more discomfort and disruption of their educations. Sen. George McGovern (D.S.D.) and Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall have acted wisely in cancelling speeches at Yale recently, to avoid crossing union picket lines; that students were unable to hear them is the fault of the unyielding Yale administration...