Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This scenario, which assumes Jimmy will come out on top, leaves Stevenson as the only one remaining on the pundits' list of vice-presidential possibilities. He provides the old venerated name for Carter's new flashy one, the establishment ties for Carter's anti-Washington constituency, the urban Midwest appeal for Carter's rural Southern one. Most importantly, Adlai finds himself in the unique position of simultaneously representing the party bosses like Daley, plus the liberals who admire the Senator's progressive legislative record and still tingle when they remember his father's greatness. This year the Daley wing...
...trait in short supply this year. Stevenson, who some say knows the issues better than his father did, is given high marks for his performance in the Senate. His well-recognized participation in the drafting of the aid package for New York City would help Carter in stricken urban areas and a knowledgability in foreign affairs seems to run in the family. On energy, Stevenson is considered one of the best informed members of Congress. These are attributes that could bring thoughtful Democrats to swallow a Carter-Stevenson ticket...
...campaigning for Italy's special national election on June 20 began last week, the Communists-perhaps prophetically-seemed to be first off the mark. From Rome top party officials fanned out to speak at urban rallies across the country, disciplined young Communist workers-like sports fans lined up early for scarce tickets to a soccer match-laid siege to courthouses to file for the top spot on Italy's complicated ballots, granted on a first-come first-served basis. Almost invariably, the Communists beat out representatives of the eleven other parties...
...good both for the brain and the cholesterol count. The 75 million-ton grain shortfall of 1975 led to a severe pinch in feed grain for animals; as a result, a sizable percentage of the Soviets' livestock was unseasonably slaughtered early this year. For a brief time, urban shoppers were presented with the agreeable spectacle of entire carcasses for sale in markets where supplies were never too abundant. The current scarcity, augmented by a foot-and-mouth epidemic centered in the Ukraine, could last as long as two years-if other agricultural disasters do not make things worse...
...good for the soul. This letter expresses the hope that he will be forgiven by those against whom he has transgressed and that all may learn from this sorrowful situation that racism has no place in higher education at Harvard or elsewhere. Charles V. Willie Professor of Education and Urban Studies...