Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angelo, who did the principal reporting on both women, has also written about the activities of most of Washington's prominent politicians, including the men behind Pat and Eleanor. She began following Mrs. McGovern down the political trail during the Democratic primaries last spring. Last week, amidst a hectic schedule of campaign visits to youth groups, senior citizens, day-care centers and factories, the two sat down again for a private chat in the McGovern hotel suite in White Plains...
CHIMERA, a collection of three novellas pursues this latter trail. The first story Dunyazadiad is Barth's version of the thousand and one Arabian nights. Traditionally, you may remember the tale goes as follows. Shahryar, king of Samarkand, has been deceived in love. Resolving that woman is a weak and sinful creature, he decides on an elaborate punishment which includes his personal deflowering of a virgin every night and her execution the following morning. After a time, Scheherezade's turn arrives. To foil the king's designs, she begins a story that first evening but stops before its conclusion, promising...
McGovern's attacks on Nixon have become increasingly sharp and bitter in recent days as the underdog Senator tries to lure the President out of the White House and onto the campaign trail...
...campaign trail, Wylie seems uncomfortable talking to the predominantly middle class Catholic voters who make up a large percentage of the voters in the district. It seems unlikely that he will be able to make any inroads into McCann's base of support: the police, firemen, and other blue collar workers who generally do not vote on ideological grounds...
...hard not to conclude that Ling and overreaching conglomerators like him have put a severe strain on the fabric of public trust in big business. The giddy ride up at LTV was a good trip for many shareholders and bankers; but when Ling fell, he left a trail of tottering companies, broken careers and distraught investors. Jimmy Ling himself has salvaged several million dollars out of a fortune that once was about $70 million. He has started another budding conglomerate, with the symbolic ending-to-beginning name of Omega-Alpha. Its stock came out a year...