Word: vies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their professional, almost impersonal skill at merchandising their personalities, they create an aura of reserve about themselves−one that reporters rarely penetrate. Against their cool responses, interrogative reporting of the Mike Wallace-Dan Rather school seems out of season, overheated and hectoring. Reporters, themselves often on camera, vie with the candidates in not wishing to appear rash, partisan or unfair. This "good guy" attitude further tranquilized primaries that were emotionally tepid and intellectually thin...
...showdown with the rest of the top ten begins next weekend when 17 teams vie for the Boston Dinghy Club Cup, out of the MIT boathouse. The Crimson squad will be without the services of All-American Terry Neff, who found out that St. Petersburg is nicer this time of year than Cambridge...
JODY POWELL, 32, Press Secretary. A southwestern Georgia farm boy, he was raised in Vienna (pronounced Vie-anna), not far from Carter's home town of Plains, and was headed for a military career until he was dismissed from the Air Force Academy for cribbing on a history exam in 1964. While working on a doctorate in political science at Georgia State University, he joined Carter as his driver in the 1970 campaign and later became press secretary. Powell spends much time these days replying to charges, often false, about Carter's past...
Bayh has placed a high priority on the April 6 primary in New York, where he has said he hopes to vie for the first-place slot with Jackson and Udall...
...HERE'S ALSO a Czechoslovakian film about the abduction of a harpist, in which hero and villain tangle, and justice prevails satisfactorily against a stark, nightmarish background. In "Euphoria," Peter Max poster colors vie with Matisse-like cutouts in a sort of Lucy-In-The-Sky jazz visual. A Japanese short which follows uses dolls to narrate a Japanese folktale about two hunters who sever the arm of a demon while hunting, and return home only to find their ancient mother bleeding to death in demonic anguish, with a missing...