Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...districts, his top-of-the-ticket strength was enough to tip close races to his party. But a presidential candidate's ability to influence the assorted imponderables of personality and local issues in House districts has always been more theoretical than real. When Dwight Eisenhower overwhelmed Adlai Stevenson by more than 9 million votes in 1956, Republicans actually lost two seats in the House. Richard Nixon's 1972 landslide of 49 states and 60.7% of the votes produced a G.O.P. gain of just twelve House seats, and most of those resulted from redistricting...
...original assignment were three Communist countries, the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, which have decided since May to sit out the Games. Leifer had the notion that Cuba's "landmark" was President Fidel Castro, who obligingly posed with the island's superheavyweight boxer, Teófilo Stevenson. Afterward, when Leifer asked Castro to autograph a picture from an earlier session, the President's arm was so sore from holding Stevenson's hand aloft in a victory salute that he could barely write. The arm was not too sore, however, to offer Leifer a light...
...accumulated success. "The New Deal and Great Society programs worked a lot better than people think," says Democratic Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas. "A lot of people left poverty and joined the middle class. We lost a lot of traditional coalition Democrats in the process." Says former Senator Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois: "We cannot win any more with just the old core constituencies. There aren't enough of them. They've moved...
...weeks, the watchdog organization found an average of nine violent acts an hour on real-life programming and 18 an hour on cartoons, nearly as high as on the three networks. Among the offenses: space battles in the Disney film The Black Hole, swordplay in an adaptation of Stevenson's Kidnapped, fistfights in Rin Tin Tin and the cartoon antics of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and the Three Little Pigs...
...train to an impromptu crowd of fellow ordinary Americans. Rovere's political analyses-about the Truman Administration's crippling venality, John Foster Dulles' domination of the Eisenhower Administration, John Kennedy's lack of specific goals-are often sharply unconventional. Unlike other liberal admirers of Adlai Stevenson, for instance, Rovere concludes that the Democrat would have been a "disaster" as President, unable to control the military, the McCarthyites and his party's ward heelers...