Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sidewalk Sam paints the town, or at least the sidewalks, when the weather permits and the mood takes him. People passing a guy who kneels in the street and chalks reproductions of Gainsborough on the pavement may wonder what he's doing down there, but to Sam it's all very clear. "I'm bringing art to the people instead of making them go to dusty old museums to see it," he says. "I'm taking painting out of the hands of the elitist art bureaucracy and putting it back where it belongs...
...Distributing posters in Florida signed by a fictitious "Mothers Backing Muskie Committee" and reading: HELP MUSKIE IN BUSING MORE CHILDREN NOW (Committee Chief Counsel Sam Dash asked Segretti: "You were one of the mothers backing Muskie...
...what it lacked in zest, Atlanta's 35-year-old black vice mayor, Maynard Jackson, all 275 Ibs. of him, broke from the pack last week and finished first with 46.6% of the vote. In next week's runoff, Jackson seems likely to beat incumbent Mayor Sam Massell, who finished second with 19.8%. Running a close third, with 19.1% of the vote, was Charles Weltner, a U.S. Congressman from 1963 to 1967 who was one of the South's first white liberals in national politics...
...rise of a country lawyer to the Senate. Praising Author Baker's savor of his fellow Tennesseans, his publisher, Doubleday & Co., is encouraging him to include a relationship that links the freshman politico with a venerable Senator who sounds remarkably like Baker's own colleague, Senator Sam Ervin...
...other things: one, the week after their existence was disclosed and before he gave his flat answer that he would not give them to the Committee, everybody and his brother began talking about how you couldn't trust the tapes because they could be so easily doctored--including Sam Dash [chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee], who started making a big point of this. It became quite clear that they would only be accepted as conclusive if they were incriminating. If they were exculpatory, they would not be, because then it would be said that the President had doctored...