Word: rep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states attorney out of office after he allegedly engineered the murder of two Black Panthers, and in the 1975 Democratic mayoral primary Daley failed to get a majority of black votes for the first time. Last spring black voters stood off an organization front man's challenge to Rep. Ralph Metcalfe (D-I11.), who had angered the mayor with his charges of police brutality...
...year's headlines for worthy toastees, borrowed (like Sullivan) a few names from friends and wove them into Sullivanian tetrameter. Angell-a short-story writer, bestselling baseball author (The Summer Game) and stepson of E.B. White-aims good cheer at "Helmut Schmidt, Kenneth Tynan/ And the Rev. Rep. (D., Mass.) Robert Drinan, " and offers "A puppy each for Stacy Reach/ And Marvellous Nadia Comaneci." He exhorts: "Come, Willie Morris! Come, Maury Wills/ Make with the tonsils for Beverly Sills, "and wishes that "the new year lay good Karma/ On our White House-tenant farmer...
...Though Rep.-elect Peter H. Kostmayer (D-Pa.) said last Monday he sensed a "slightly condescending" attitude among the organizers of the instruction program, the legislators haven't spent all their time in classrooms being talked at like the average undergraduate...
...Rep.-elect Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who said he was lured to the receptions by the prospect of free pretzels, said he instead faced questions from students that he described as "incisive, perceptive and illuminating...
...fact, most of the congressmen said they got more out of the Institute's training program than simply a tour of Harvard and a bundle of free meals at the Faculty Club. Rep.-elect Thomas Corcoran (R-III.) yesterday praised the weeklong session as a valuable opportunity for new congressmen to "get a head start on their new jobs." And Hayakawa, speaking at another Institute of Politics reception yesterday, said the program was helpful for him in the hectic task of getting used to his "new trade...