Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only was he deeply committed to the embargo but also he was furious at the Administration for the dismissal of his old friend, Robert T. Griffin, from the General Services Administration. Other Democratic leaders, however, were frantically mobilizing support-for opposite sides. Indiana's John Brademas, the Democratic whip and a leader of the pro-Greek lobby, was fighting to keep the embargo. At this point, he had a lone vote in reserve. Opposing him was Democratic Floor Leader James Wright of Texas, who had already used up most of the "sleepers" he could call on to vote...
About 200 guests showed up at Washington's fashionable Club La Serre last week to celebrate the appearance of the Fleetwood Mac rock group. Among them: Chip Carter and House Majority Whip John Brademas, along with a sprinkling of Senators (Alan Cranston and Dick Clark) and political hopefuls (Bill Bradley and Yvonne Burke). Also there, natty in a navy blue suit, white shirt and tie, was the customarily casual White House Aide Hamilton Jordan. Said he: "Some of my critics in the city have told me that I would do better if I got out and socialized with members...
...Carter's lack of success as a Government manager. Hamilton Jordan is the President's senior adviser and is sometimes regarded as chief of staff. In fact, however, no one has that title and function, or even a standing mandate to keep things moving by cracking the whip over his colleagues. Major assignments rotate from office to office, and much is handled on an ad hoc basis. Explains a high Administration official: "The problem is not the decisions we make, but how we make them and how they are made public. Jimmy Carter consults everyone, and there...
Steinbrenner, money or no, is the worst thing to happen to the Yankees since Horace Clarke. He is a seemingly guileless man, someone who thinks that a lot of whip-out entitles him to say whatever he wants and do whatever he wants, no matter how it affects anyone around him--including, in this case, his own ballclub. At the same time that he insisted Martin was his manager, he constantly criticized both the club and the manager, yelling at players and at Martin and even insisting on his own lineups, anything to make Martin feel unwelcome...
...Soviet skittishness is understandable. Ideologically, the stakes in Baguio City are even higher than they were in Iceland six years ago, when Bobby Fischer came out of Brooklyn to whip Boris Spassky and temporarily break the long Soviet domination of the game that Lenin himself consecrated as "a gymnasium of the mind." Defending the Soviet honor this time is Karpov, a onetime prodigy who inherited the world title in 1975, when Fischer failed to defend it,* and is now a major Soviet hero, complete with membership on the Young Communist League's central committee. But facing...