Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BLACKS. "Mr. Roosevelt, he was de po' man's friend," goes a Georgia fieldworkers' song, and for four decades blacks have voted overwhelmingly for the party of F.D.R. and the New Deal. With Carter's popularity among blacks at 83% in the latest Gallup poll, this year promises to be no different. Blacks are drawn to Carter by his fair treatment of them as Governor of Georgia, his Baptist evangelicalism, which echoes their own language of love and trust, the presence of several high-ranking blacks in his campaign, and his support of programs like welfare...
...passed the signal and delegates were ready with hundreds of Ford signs under their seats. Nancy arrived across the hall just before the 16c battle was joined. As she seemed to be gaining decibels in the audio clash, the band broke into TV Star Tony Orlando's hit song Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree. Betty turned to Orlando, who was visiting the Ford family's VIP gallery, and the two danced breezily in the aisle for a few moments. The crowd went wild. Nancy purportedly was spared the sight of her rival...
During the primary campaign, the competition had not always been a matter of song and dance. In interviews with TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo just before the nomination, there was an edge to the comments of both women...
...first rehearsal with Leading Man Robert Stephens was less harmonious. The actor was fired from the cast and told that Taylor had cited poor "chemistry" between the two as the reason. "Bad chemistry?" retorted Stephens. "We're actors, not pharmacists." Taylor, meanwhile, sang a different song about Stephens' dismissal. "The unit manager was the one who spoke to him. If I find out he has put the blame on me, there will be one unit manager less." Now for her next number...
...first of his "finger lickin' good" chicken eateries, has not invested any money in Kentucky Lucky, a new stage show scheduled for a fall debut. Conceived by Writer James Chappin and directed by Jerry Adler (My Fair Lady), the show will tell the colonel's story in song and dance. Sanders doubts that it will help chicken sales, however. "If it was just another commercial," he explains, "it wouldn't be worth seeing...