Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campus quickens to the approach of the fall term and a few of the weaker maple trees are beginning to turn orange. The occasion is the Fourth International Conference on Computers and-what is this?-the Humanities. Is the conference title a self-contradiction, like "fresh-frozen" or "Young Republican"? The observer, a humanist in a dry season, resolutely programs himself to suppress his real attitude toward computers, which is a feeling of smugness and superiority masking a feeling of inferiority and hysteria. This dates from an episode ten years ago when he was living in Salzburg, Austria...
...draft-Kennedy movement has by now probably gone too far for the Senator to pull out, even if he wanted to. As a staunch Republican once remarked about Teddy Roosevelt, "We're going to nominate him by assault." In a way, it is now or never for Kennedy. Democratic Party leaders think they need him more than ever before; he must heed their call or risk mortally offending them. Democratic officeholders are showing signs of panic at the prospect of running on a ticket headed by Carter. A New England poll indicates that there would be a 16-point...
...road to lobby for his energy proposals. But wherever he went, he was never able to escape the long shadow of his rival, not even aboard Air Force One on the way to his first stop, Hartford, Conn. As a courtesy he had invited Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, a Republican, to join him on the plane. When reporters asked Weicker about Kennedy, he replied that all Republican officeholders were hoping that Carter would head the ticket. Said Weicker: "If Kennedy runs in Connecticut, he threatens to take the whole shebang with him. He would win in a landslide." Complained White...
...Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, said yesterday after the White House session that the presence of Soviet troops in Cuba is a "provocation." "I think the matter ought to have been dealt with by now," he added...
Former Gov. Ronald E. Reagan, unannounced Republican presidential candidate, will speak at the Music Hall in Boston on November 2 at a fundraiser featuring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin...