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BACK IN the late Sixties, Terry Dolan was a youth campaign organizer for a boisterous Connecticut assemblyman named Lowell P. Weicker. "Those were the conservative Weicker days," Dolan is quick to point out. As executive director of the nation's best known right-wing political action committee, he can no longer afford to be associated with Weicker--now considered one of the few moderate-to-liberal Republicans in the Senate. In fact, Dolan is doing everything he can to hasten Weicker's demise on Capitol Hill...
...senator, for his part, thinks Dolan is a twerp. Weicker scoffs at smug predictions that the Republican victories of 1980 portend an era of extreme conservatism in America. He calls Dolan "wacky," even "repugnant," and recalls that he was never very good as a go-fer anyway...
That was all for Goodwin, a Cambridge native. Enter back-up goaltender Grey Weicker. Then, at 18:30, exit back-up goaltender Grey Weicker, as St. Lawrence gambled with six skaters and an empty...
...with Joan Lunden. It's Tuesday, the 18th of November." After a few more introductory words, Bell takes over and tells viewers what happened in the world while they were asleep. At 7:13 Hartman comes back to moderate a sharp debate on school busing between Senators Lowell Weicker and Jesse Helms, the pro and the con. Ten minutes later the show breaks, and some 200 stations give five minutes of local news and weather...
...years past the fight against the antibusing rider would have been led in the Senate by liberal Democrats, but this time most stood aside and let a Republican moderate, Connecticut's Lowell Weicker, direct the losing effort. Complained Weicker: "This has been coming on slowly for a number of years. The civil rights groups packed up and went home ten years ago, and the Democrats are running away from their traditional constituencies." Weicker had a point: 20 Democrats voted for the rider, 26 opposed it. Weicker gloomily concluded: "If it is so hard to stop this kind of measure...