Word: rung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard lacrosse team will battle Dartmouth for the penultimate rung in Ivy League ladder Saturday at Soldiers Field...
...stalked Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, 65. The senior Senator prowled through the Virginian's homestead, admired the view of the Capitol, and then announced that he would foreclose the mortgage. "I'd like to have the office," rumbled Morse, who stands on the eighth rung from the top in Senate seniority and can claim nearly any office he chooses. Groaned one of Little Harry's men: "As Number 100 in the Senate, Byrd will take the one that's left-somewhere out in Maryland, maybe...
...dreams of James M. McGovern Jr. '64 point upward--perhaps to Congress, perhaps to statewide office. But the ladder of ascending political ambition is a steep one, and McGovern has resolved to climb every rung, not hop, skip, and jump with the danger of dropping painfully to the bottom. His race three weeks ago for the Cambridge City Council was a losing one because he wasn't elected. But the 22-year-old candidate did not expect to win, and the events of the campaign did nothing to discourage his dreams...
...strength from the duality of his background. When he leaves the Council, the CCA will have no one there with a broad base of support. McGovern has the history and the talent to replace Crane, and could have the chance to do so. But once he gains the first rung of the political ladder, it may be hard to stop Jim McGovern from going on to higher things
Stephen Shaddeg watched the 1964 presidential campaign from a perch on the second rung of the Goldwater hierarcy. (He was a regional director for 11 far western states.) As the man who managed Goldwater's two successful Senatorial races, Shaddeg clearly did not like what...