Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's success, meanwhile, has begun to force Humphrey off the sideline. Last week he charged that presidential candidates who run against Washington are practicing "a disguised new form of racism." By making the Federal Government an issue, he reasoned, they "are making an attack on Government programs, on the poor, on blacks, on minorities, on the cities." Humphrey insisted that he was criticizing only Ford and Ronald Reagan, but his words could also be applied to Carter. In response, he called Humphrey's statement "a departure from rationality...
...spoke favorably on numerous occasions, when running for Governor, of both George Wallace and Lester Maddox, two of the foremost symbols of the relationship between racial hatred and political success in the pre-1970s South. More recently, Carter has bitterly attacked Maddox, now one of his most outspoken Georgia critics...
What happens to a newspaper when it becomes a legend? In the hothouse atmosphere of Washington, there are gusts of jealousy and predictions of trouble: too much self-satisfaction, it is muttered of the Post, too much success. Newsmen and newspapers, goes one rather convincing theory, should stay out of the limelight, should remain a little insecure and run scared to do their job well...
...indulge in celebrity carryings-on. Indeed, they have spent the last year working at their trade, reporting the death throes of the Administration they were instrumental in bringing down. Their new book, The Final Days, to be published by Simon & Schuster (see box), is already an assured commercial success and, their agent believes, a cinch to set a new record for a paperback sale. They remain leaders of the Watergate industry they helped to found with their revelations. They are competing now with other reportage and memoirs, even novels (John Ehrlichman is about to publish one) by the people they...
...suspended from the Inquirer and eventually convicted), and an expose detailing how local politicians had fouled up Philadelphia's Bicentennial celebration by mismanaging funds (as a result, the city restored to the welfare fund $500,000 that it had earlier diverted to the Bicentennial). Philadelphia 's success is due to the unwavering localism of Publisher Herbert Lipson, 46, who was a charter member of a booster organization, Action Philadelphia, before taking Philadelphia over from his father in 1961. "We wouldn't do a piece on Jerry Ford," he says, "unless it turned out he was born...