Word: rowlands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columnist Joseph Kraft, "President Nixon is risking almost everything to gain practically nothing" because the best the Administration can achieve is a "fig leaf for defeat." On the same day's Washington Post op-edit page, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak called the President's latest move "dangerously high-risk poker," but speculated that the pot could be rewarding in two ways: by thwarting a fresh Communist offensive in the fall while keeping the Russians far enough below the boiling point to save a Moscow-Washington agreement on nuclear-arms limitations. The Washington Star, meanwhile, declared that...
...credit, the Post's Broder identified a general malaise among voters that might hurt Muskie, and with a colleague sniffed out the Senator's problems in New Hampshire just before the voting there. But these findings had little impact until primary results began to accumulate. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak wrote repeatedly of Muskie's "remarkable popularity," though they also criticized the wisdom of his tactics. Said Evans last week: "No one took Humphrey seriously, God knows I didn't, and McGovern's was a joke candidacy. Novak and I both thought that despite...
...PAST several months, the conventional wisdom among reputedly knowledgeable political columnists has been that Senator George McGovern probably won't win the Democratic nomination for President because he is unacceptable to the big city and labor leaders who form the nucleus of traditional Democratic party power. Columnists like Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Stewart Alsop, and James Reston have consistently passed along the information that Democratic powers like Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and AFL-CIO President George Meany cannot support McGovern's candidacy. They have, however, rarely been able to quote sources to back up their claims...
...come to Spain for the sun. Missionaries all, they were Southern Baptist laymen-farmers, mail carriers and bankers. Their task: to help the struggling Spanish Baptists stage an evangelistic crusade. "The Bible was a story of people who walked in faith in a hostile land," declared Dallas Cattleman L.S. Rowland in a stem-winding oration, translated from roughhewn English to smooth Spanish by another missionary. "The truth is that we may move all of Spain...
Syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak published a column about the article in newspapers across the country, stating erroneously that it was a "manifesto" of the Crimson and that it contributed to a "climate of fear" on the Harvard campus...