Word: team
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What the draft-Kennedy forces lack in money (total budget: $175,000) and big-name resources, they make up for in youthful spirits and shoe leather. They have hundreds of volunteers, directed by a small but experienced team of campaign veterans. It is a bare-knuckle fight. Observes A.J. Boland, Democratic chairman in Escambia County in the panhandle: "They're shooting to kill here, fighting like cats and dogs. The Kennedy people in the county intend to march their slate, 32 strong, to the voting place in a mass, to prevent last-minute defections...
...large, the transition went smoothly. At the stroke of midnight on the appointed day, a team of Panamanian telecommunications workers, led by Torrijo's brother Mardin, took over the Balboa post office from American officials...
...volunteer juries have turned out to be sensitive and imaginative. They have handed out some less-than-draconian but effective decrees: ordering a 17-year-old to join an athletic team; rebuking a father for belittling his son and "being part of the problem"; instructing a youth to write a letter of apology to a policeman...
Quickly, the real leaders of the Kennedy campaign--the candidate, the Boston heavies--issued pre-caucus alibis. "I'll lose caucus, Ted says," screamed the Miami News a few days ago. "Its an exhibition game between a pro team and a pickup team with no captain, no quarterback and no jerseys," Kennedy's own chief adviser insisted, "It doesn't count in the league standings." Meanwhile, pro-Kennedy radio spots, kept flooding the Miami airwaves...
...series resumes today in Pittsburgh, as Jim Bibby takes the mound for the home team to oppose Baltimore's Dennis Martinez. The Orioles lead the series...