Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign trail, he is a political Rorschach test. People see in him what they want to see. In Maryland, zealous Campaign Worker Ellen McCarthy views him as the candidate most like her father Eugene McCarthy. But Brown's Rhode Island vice chairman, State Senator Guide Camilla, who describes himself as a 'hardcore conservative,' sees Brown as someone whom conservatives could rally round...
This is not fair. To bring a team that the Red Sox trail by two games to Fenway Park when Homer and Hegel need to be pulled from that monstrous pile of unread books is simply not fair...
With 610 delegates in hand (needed to nominate: 1,505), Carter has decided to spend fewer 16-hr, days on the campaign trail and more time trying to unite the party behind him-a goal that eluded George McGovern in 1972 and Hubert Humphrey in 1968. With some success, he solicited support at the meeting of black Democratic leaders in Charlotte, N.C. (see following story), then spent several days at home in Plains, Ga., phoning scores of Democratic union leaders, members of Congress, Governors, mayors, state and local party chiefs. Among those he wooed were Democratic Chairman Robert Strauss, former...
...good friends of mine" such retiring folks as Edward Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, Bob Dylan and Burt Reynolds. There is probably no more bizarre relationship in American politics than the one that exists between him and Hunter Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 and other boozy, spaced-out analyses of the American body politic. Thompson met Carter in 1974 at a University of Georgia Law Day ceremony, where Carter gave an off-the-cuff speech. So impressed was Thompson by the speech that he got a tape recording of it, which...
Sometime Lay Evangelist Jimmy Carter is not the only member of his Southern Baptist family to plunge into religious work. His younger sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, 46, has been on the Gospel trail for nine years both preaching and practicing what she calls "healing of memories." She works not only with her fellow Protestants but with Roman Catholics as well; 5,000 of them attended one of her healing sessions in Atlantic City last October. She also conducted spiritual workshops in 75 other U.S. cities last year, as well as in Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and England...