Word: waits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private conversations in which they discussed the Reagan delegate advantage, Ford and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller plotted a dramatic countermove. To slow any rush of uncommitted delegates to Reagan, Rocky agreed to throw as much of the big New York delegation as he could behind Ford now-rather than wait until the August convention, when it might be too late. The 154 New York delegates were to meet this week, and at least 120 were expected to announce for Ford. Late last week, 88 out of Pennsylvania's 103 uncommitted delegates voted to support Ford. That put the President...
...reason why I shouldn't be the nominee. So I just work back from that and run it through. That's my Jesuit thinking and Talmudic logic." In the eyes of most Democrats, it is also an impossible dream this year -but wait till...
...first bared her talents in Emmanuelle. Now about to appear in Director Roger Vadim's La Femme Fidele, Kristel plays the role of a faithful wife who must contend with advances from another man. The role is "en costume," notes Sylvia primly, and "the audience will have to wait a full 40 minutes before I give in." Viewers of future Kristel movies may be kept waiting too, but the titles suggest that it won't be a fruitless vigil. After finishing Femme, she will film The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars, a murder mystery featuring Peter Fonda, Michael...
...ultimately getting at least 50 of the state's 71 delegates. Carter also won the support of Democratic leaders in Virginia, giving him 40 of the state's 54 delegates. Many other party veterans were on the verge of supporting him. But they held back to wait a bit after Morris Udall ran an unexpectedly close second to him in Connecticut, 33-31%, and Frank Church knocked a few spokes from the wheels of the Carter bandwagon in Nebraska...
...increasing the rate in Los Angeles to 7? on the dollar. That is expected to raise $289 million the first year and $300 million in each succeeding year. In an authoritative voice former Television Newscaster Ward says: "Nobody else is going to pay for mass transit. If we wait for the Federal Government, it will be two centuries before the job gets done." Even so, the proposal has been rushed onto the ballot partly because Ward hopes that an affirmative vote will enable Los Angeles to snare $800 million in unallocated federal transit-aid funds before some other area gets...