Word: strauses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tempted to believe that the four conservative Southerners--Sen. Fritz Hollings (D.S.C), former Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, probably Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.), and perhaps former National Party Chairman Robert Straus of Texas--have entered the fray partly out of the much heralded "turn to the right" the country experienced in 1980. Indeed, early press reports indicated that Sen. Hollings based the rationale for his campaign in part on those halcyonyon pre recession days of 1981, when Time referred to Reagan as a domestically able President," and a Democratic candidacy as a conservative alternative to Ronald Reagan seemed credible...
...that other prominent Democrats were not in the race--Wallace was perceived as too infirm, and the nation learned of the tragedy of Hubert Humphrey's cancer in his decision not to run. Sen. Bumpers has started to organize too late (yes, March 1983 is probably too late). Straus is an interesting and potentially attractive candidate--a Southerner and a prominent conservative within the party--but he would also be the first Jewish American to run seriously for President. Only in a deadlocked convention does he appear to have a chance...
...told and retold what happened after that. Her family convinced her to talk to a kindly man who sat next to them in chapel and had "something to do with publishing"-John Farrar of Farrar Straus & Giroux. He liked the book and told L 'Engle, "I'm publishing it as an indulgence, but don't be disappointed if it doesn't sell because we don't expect...
STIEGLITZ: A MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY by Sue Davidson Lowe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 456 pages; $25.50 ALFRED STIEGLITZ: PHOTOGRAPHS & WRITINGS; Callaway; 247 pages...
Another example of Currier's transition is its meteoric rise to a first-place finish in the Straus Cup intramural competition. Only a year before, it finished 11th in a field of 12. "When we realized that we were only 100 points out of first, the House pulled together and went for it," says Viola. "We did not have the athletes that Kirkland, Eliot, and Winthrop have, but we won the Cup because we were motivated...