Word: thompson
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Missouri's attorney general John C. Danforth, 40, easily won the U.S. Senate seat long held by Democrat Stuart Symington; by the size of his victory, Danforth almost automatically becomes a G.O.P. force to be reckoned with. So does Illinois' new Governor James R. ("Big Jim") Thompson, 40, the tough prosecutor who swamped the hand-picked nominee of the Daley machine...
James ("Big Jim") Thompson, 40, who in four years as U.S. Attorney put dozens of Mayor Daley's underlings into the slammer for various forms of corruption, easily knocked off another Daley lieutenant, jowly Democrat Michael Hewlett, to win the state's governorship by more than a million votes. A Republican liberal, Thompson rolled up heavy majorities in conservative downstate Illinois and Chicago's suburbs; he even made inroads into the traditionally Democratic black wards of Chicago...
With his somewhat wooden speaking style, Thompson campaigned intelligently and energetically seven days a week. The strapping (6 ft. 6 in., 200 Ibs.) Thompson also put on slacks and cowboy boots to appear more folksy. He pictured the genial but ineffectual Hewlett, who had been Illinois' secretary of state, as the embodiment of old-style politics. Thompson now has his work cut out for him: he has only a two-year term and faces a cantankerous legislature controlled by the Democrats. But his smashing win has catapulted him into national prominence as a possible Republican presidential contender...
...serving up fungoes to Jerry Ford in imitation of a reporter asking searching questions. The working press also found itself outranked by the favors granted to guest journalists. Hoping to reach the sizable but apathetic young audience, Carter talked lengthily to Rolling Stone's self-centered Hunter S. Thompson (who neglected to quote Jimmy), to Norman Mailer (Carter said a four-letter word) and to Playboy's Robert Scheer, a self-styled "aggressive Berkeley radical." The delayed effects of these interviews increased Carter's wariness with the press...
...Passages, Sheeny (1) 2Roots, Haley (2) 3-The Right and the Power, Jaworski (4) 4-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (3) 5-Adolf Hitler, To/and (5) 6-The Grass ,ls Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, Bombeclc (6) 7-Blind Ambition, Dean 8 - Blood and Money, Thompson (7) 9-The Final Days, Woodward & Bernstein (9) 10-Fire and Ice, Tobias...