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Free Access. Carter chose Hamilton Jordan, 32, his shrewd and affable campaign manager, to be his chief political adviser. Jordan has been a loyalist since 1966, when Carter was running his losing race for the Georgia governorship. Another key role will be played by Press Secretary Jody Powell, 33, who began working for Carter as his chauffeur in his 1970 gubernatorial contest...
...hate myself in the morning." Since Communist Party membership was not illegal, the ten argued - with good reason - that such inquiries were in flagrant breach of the First Amendment. They stood, accordingly, on their rights, until it became clear that they did not have many. Trumbo, shrewd and charming, is the cornerstone of the film. When asked whether he would have behaved differently if he could have anticipated the consequences, he answers immediately, "I don't know. And I don't think that anyone knows. I hope I wouldn't have, and I think probably I would...
...Senate majority leader looks like no contest at all: a dour conservative from West Virginia who is shadowed by past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, v. an exuberant former Vice President who is esteemed as an elder statesman of the Democratic Party. Yet the heavy betting favorite is shrewd Robert C. Byrd, 58, and not Minnesota's liberal crusader, 65-year-old Hubert Humphrey...
...Chirac is also playing a shrewd personal politics. By focusing the conservative crusade on his new party, he has launched a direct challenge to the "presidential majority" of current President Valery Giscard-D'Estaing. After resigning as Giscard's Prime Minister in August (largely because of the president's reluctance to declare an all-out attack on the leftist coalition), he has tacitly declared his own political war that can only escalate as the presidential election in 1981 approaches. In pursuit of both objectives he seems ready and willing to stir up dangerous reactionary sentiments...
Private Ivan Chonkin bears a Slavic resemblance to Jaroslav Haśek's The Good Soldier Schweik. But where Schweik was a shrewd operator in the Austro-Czech army of World War I, Good Soldier Chonkin belongs to an older tradition. He is the wise fool, the slow-witted peasant who mulishly plows a straight furrow through a devious world. Chonkin even looks as if he had plodded from the pages of folklore, "his field shirt hanging out over his belt, his forage cap down over his big red ears, his puttees slipping...