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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 4200 predominantly middle class, white well wishers, who paid from $25 to $1000 for a seat, cheered as the show opened with Vegas-styled comedian Pat Henry...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Sinatra, Martin Perform For Reagan | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...Very little is going on besides trying to get reelected," council incumbent Mary Ellen Preusser said Thursday. "I had no idea what hard work this was going to be," Douglas Okun, a frazzled first-time challenger for a council seat, said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning, Losing and Taking Vacations | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

Baker's popularity did not just grow from the toothy grin and Southern twang he carries in his political make-up bag. He inherited the power to attract followers from his father, who served six terms in Congress and his mother, who took the seat for awhile after the elder Baker's death. And when Howard Baker decided to get married he selected Joy Dirksen, a blonde midwesterner and daughter of the Senate Republican leader, Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Besides his political connections, Baker is a Republican, and eastern Tennessee is almost all Republican. And Presbyterian--just like Baker...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Mr. Statesman | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

Abrams said, however, he does not want students to misconstrue his running for a second seat to mean he does not take the assembly seriously...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Assembly Refuses to Permit Delegate to Hold Two Seats | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...passengers on the Cambridge bus to the Women Against Pornography (WAP) march on Times Square a week ago got a pretty good idea of what they were up against the minute they boarded. A day-glo poster above the driver's seat read, "Don't ask me to think--I was hired for my looks." Tall, blond, and paunchy, wearing his name (Dick) on a big pewter belt buckle, the man beneath the sign greeted the "ladies" as the coach pulled onto the Mass Pike. "A couple of you look familiar back there," he said. "I didn...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Hitting the Hard Core Of the Big Apple | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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