Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberal Democratic leaders, including Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.)--who head the Senate Intelligence, Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees, respectively--all fell to GOP challengers...
...Durkin is blunt, his opponent, Republican Warren Rudman, is downright ingenuous. The beneficiary of vigorous efforts by the National Conservative Political Action Committee, Rudman has watched his incumbent adversary crudely portrayed as a pro-busing, anti-prayer buffoon. One NCPAC leaflet has Durkin teaching a class of children--two of the children are white, with books on their neatly ordered desks. The two Black children are unflatteringly depicted; their desks are messy and bookless. John Durkin, the leaflet states, casts "anti-child" and "anti-parent" votes...
...Hampshire's senatorial race between incumbent John Durkin, the Democrat, and Republican Warren Rudman has two distinguishing features: it has been extremely bitter, at both a political and personal level; and it has been extremely inexpensive in comparison to most...
...with abbreviations, codes and numbers. Candidates' names, for instance, are shortened to three or four letters in tiny type (CART, REAG, AND). Before CBS can call a winner, the computer must call it first; it flashes a C next to its choice. If Election and Survey Unit Director Warren Mitofsky concurs with the computer's judgment, a W will turn up next to the name. Then the choice will be announced, but not as a "winner." Cautions the handbook...
DIED. Sheldon Warren Cheney, 94, art historian and theater critic who helped define the modernist movement in American drama in the 1920s and '30s that was exemplified by such figures as Playwright Eugene O'Neill and Designer Robert Edmond Jones; of a stroke, in Berkeley, Calif. He founded Theatre Arts magazine in 1916 (it discontinued publication in 1964). His books include The New Movement in the Theater (1914), Expressionism in Art (1934) and The Story of Modern...