Word: stints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cronin, a lowkey Republican businessman, whose major claim to fame came from his intimate political association with outgoing Republican Congressman F. Bradford Morse. Morse's popularity was a well-known phenomenon in the District, and, while Cronin had himself served two terms as a state representative besides doing a stint on the Andover Board of Selectmen, he made no attempts to disguise his ties with Morse. Morse was Cronin's political meal ticket and Cronin felt no compunction over flaunting the fact. But despite Cronin's ties with his popular GOP predecessor, it appeared during the campaign and right...
...bare three hours' solo time as a pilot, and that was long ago, before he gave up flying in favor of racing sailboats. But his interest in planes goes back to childhood when he built models, devoured copies of The Aeroplane and Popular Aviation and, after a stint in a Canadian prep school, dreamed of joining the Royal Canadian Air Force. At 16, though, he suddenly needed glasses and went to Harvard instead. ("At the time I was crushed," Foote recalls.) Recently, though, his fondness for planes was a help in getting acquainted with Richard Bach, the free-spirited...
...Congressman for an eternity, finally realized that it's not very possible to beat Louise Day Hicks in a primary. So instead of sitting out the election for the 9th Congressional District as he did for so long, waiting for John McCormack to finish up his 42-year stint in the House of Representatives, or running against Congresswoman Hicks as he did in he primary two years ago. Moakley decided to run this year as an Independent. In a district where almost everybody almost always votes Democratic for almost every office, it's an uphill fight...
Kibbutz life remains attractive to most of its members: between 70% and 80% return to it when they finish their required military stint, and the kibbutz population has maintained a growth rate of 2% to 3% a year even when Israel as a whole was growing more slowly. The appeal of the collective seems to come partly from its stability. "We still do not have the evils of the city. We live with our doors open," says David Tal. Indeed, there are no courts, no police, no crime, and virtually nothing that can be called juvenile delinquency...
...spite of the rise of campaign consultants, Walker is probably the first person to use his system of distribution of radio spots. Walker just graduated from Georgetown last year and began working with McGovern after a short stint in the Hughes for President campaign. Hughes had a veteran radio reporter who was in the process of developing the distribution system for a national campaign. Since Hughes never really got of the ground as a national candidate his radio man never got a chance to use his system. However, Walker worked him developing the plan, and perfected the system...