Word: thompson
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...publicity campaign has been pushed by the Greek embassy in Washington, which has hired the public relations firm of J. Walter Thompson to advise it. The embassy has also retained William Ruckelshaus, the former Deputy Attorney General who was a victim of Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, to argue against military aid to Turkey on Capitol Hill. Legislators describe his efforts as "low-key but effective." The embassy's most visible publicist has been John Nicolopoulos, a former political science professor who fled the Greek junta and has acquired influence among Washington newsmen and congressional staffers...
...four years as U.S. Attorney in Chicago, James R. ("Big Jim") Thompson has racked up a stunning crime-busting record. He has indicted 356 federal, state and local officials, as well as 89 Chicago policemen, winning conviction in 90% of the cases so far resolved. Among the most prominent were the conviction of former Illinois Governor Otto Kerner on charges of bribery, tax evasion and mail fraud, the conviction of six Chicago aldermen on charges of mail fraud, conspiracy and bribery, and the successful prosecution of Mayor Richard Daley's press secretary on charges of mail fraud. A strapping...
...Thompson's opposition for the nomination, conservative Republican Richard Cooper, chairman of Weight Watchers of Chicago Inc., is thought to be negligible. Thompson's real challenge will be to defeat incumbent Democrat Daniel Walker, 52, a tough party maverick who walked the state to win election three years ago in defiance of Richard Daley's political machine. Along with his impressive track record, Thompson enters the race, according to a survey conducted by Market Opinion Research of Detroit Co., with a 75% statewide recognition factor and a job approval percentage of 80. In a recent telephone poll...
...Thompson has never run for public office, and in addition to recruiting a staff and boning up on issues, he must be wary of Daley. The mayor is often at odds with Walker but is hardly a fan of Thompson's. The candidate was careful to point out as he made his announcement that he saw no reason for the mayor to conduct "a vendetta against me," adding that as a prosecutor he had never uttered "a single word of personal animus" against Daley...
...said he has engaged Benjamin Thompson Associates, a Cambridge architecture firm currently working on the Business School housing project, and Wilbur Smith Associates, a consultant firm, to work out traffic problems and Cambridge groups' objections to the Aliston alternative...