Word: ronald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge from the convention scene, Richard Nixon, that most controversial of politicians, never had an enemy in the world. Old rivals were as eager as party job holders to pay tribute to the President. California Governor Ronald Reagan, his own presidential ambitions behind him, readily agreed to chair the convention until Tuesday afternoon. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, having moved far enough rightward to satisfy the President, was happy to put Nixon in nomination...
...East African Asians. Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home conceded Britain's "special obligation" to those who hold British passports, but hoped that London's duty could be fulfilled by an "orderly quota arrangement over the years." Others were unwilling to admit any obligation at all. M.P. Ronald Bell, a member of the Tory right-wing Monday Club, issued a statement declaring that "these so-called British Asiatics are no more and no less British than any Indian in the bazaars of Bombay...
...RONALD A. PIERATT
Liberal Leaning. Most of the heat centered in Washington, home base for a sizable army of political reporters who feel they will now have to cover the coming campaign under something of a partisan cloud, their neutrality compromised in the eyes of a skeptical public. The endorsement, complained Chairman Ronald Sarro of Washington's Evening Star-Daily News Guild unit, "gives ammunition to those looking for an excuse to attack the press on any grounds." It bothered even those who, while not at all anxious to belabor the press, feel that it should not only be fair but should...
...realm that lies only beyond the fourth martini or the third joint. Otherwise, Hunter's Shangri-La-the set for a new musical version of Hilton's novel-has it all over the novel, as well as Frank Capra's 1937 black-and-white Ronald Colman tearjerker...