Word: trailing
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Also, I was sort of hoping that Taking Charge might settle some lingering questions about my role in the policy that came to dominate the Johnson presidency. Maybe next to a reference to some extemporaneous ramblings he had delivered on the campaign trail--yet another version of what we speechwriters used to call his county-commissioner speech--I'd find a footnote by Michael Beschloss, who edited the tapes, saying, "Technically, this speech was written by Calvin Trillin, but, since what L.B.J. said bears absolutely no resemblance to the text, Trillin is not considered responsible for the war in Vietnam...
...course bribery exists, and Republicans are hard at work following the trail of money that went into the presidential campaign coffers. But not only is it illegal, it is frowned upon. Even if Republicans are not able to find anything particularly revealing in their investigations, they are hoping to tarnish the image of the Democratic party before the next elections...
CHARLOTTE FALTERMAYER has been following the trail of Anne Marie Fahey since the secretary, who worked for Delaware Governor Thomas Carper, disappeared 17 months ago. Last May, Faltermayer traveled to Fahey's Wilmington home and scouted out the posh neighborhood of her lover--and accused killer--Thomas Capano. After Capano was arrested, Faltermayer staked out O'Friel's pub, unofficial headquarters of the hunt for Fahey--or her murderer. For Faltermayer, detective stories are becoming familiar territory. She reported on a 1977 Philadelphia slaying and on the 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Says...
PIONEER PUBLISHER Sporting muddy work clothes as he cleared a trail with his chainsaw in Norfolk, Conn., 6-ft. 7-in. James Laughlin looked more like a refugee from the set of the film Deliverance than one of America's most distinguished publishers. Except for indulgences such as a fondness for television shows like Hawaii Five-O, Laughlin was austere--in his business ventures, his poetry and his habits. New Directions, the publishing house he founded while still a sophomore at Harvard, gave meager advances but brought to the world's attention Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller...
Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith is one of the New England recipients of the Patriot Trail Girl Scouts Woman's Leadership Award. She will be honored tonight at a banquet to be held in the John F. Kennedy Library...Allison Feaster edged closer to the Harvard record books on Saturday. Her 16 points bring her career total to 1,531 which means she needs just 75 points to break the school record of 1,605 held by Tammy Butler '95. HARVARD, 75-47 at West Point, NY Harvard 36 39 -- 75 Army...