Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter will need whatever organizational help these men can provide. He has only a fragile hold on his party, which on its left yearns for the charisma of Ted Kennedy and on its right is intrigued by the sudden conservatism of California's Jerry Brown. Polls show Carter beating Jerry Ford (53% to 40%) or Ronald Reagan (55% to 38%) if he wins his own nomination, but he is still less popular than Kennedy in his own party...
...short streets still show the mildly abraded middle-class homes of the past 90 years. The one long block of South Hudson Street still shows black hovels in what seems permanently frozen collapse. No sign of pork-barrel public works or decor (beyond merciful provision for human excretion), no Carter statues yet, no rumors of veiled Saudi peanut takeovers. And any conversation with a longtime resident is likely to reveal that, under some genuine annoyance with the present, the spiritual structures of the past are standing, for better or worse, and straining to survive till Jimmy is a private citizen...
...lunched with some 60 G.O.P. Congressmen and held 20-minute private talks with several others. Reagan demanded no commitments to his still unannounced candidacy and worked instead to moderate his image of extreme conservatism. "He appeared very reasonable," said Iowa Congressman James Leach, a moderate. "He tried to show us he was in tune with other people...
...Kennedy Center for the Vice Premier and 600 selected guests, including Washington's Government and business elite. They will view the ballet Rodeo and excerpts from the Broadway musical Eubie and hear John Denver sing his country songs. One Washington wag suggested that Teng would probably prefer a show performed exclusively by Russian defectors: Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov and ex-Moscow Philharmonic Conductor Kiril Kondra-shin, for example...
...national euphoria ends, the military begins to show its muscle...