Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future. Many of Carter's confidants speak warmly of Frank Church as a prospective Vice President (see story, page 15). Scoop Jackson also yearns to be Veep but stands much less of a chance. Humphrey would like to succeed retiring Mike Mansfield as Senate majority leader; but Senate Whip Robert Byrd of West Virginia has campaigned tirelessly for that job and has a long lead. Udall would like to compete for the Senate in 1980. The brightest future seems to belong to Jerry Brown, whose lower-thy-expec-tations lines turn on the voters. Unless they weary of his above...
...crowned a cannibal as the king of kings for our country. Ask the head hidden under the crown. That divine head is nothing but a cannibal's head. The cannibal with a machine gun, the cannibal with a whip, the cannibal with an iron mesh heating your bottom and spine until you vomit your brains out--yes, this cannibal is here...
...quietly circulated before, and in 1971, with Scotland Yard's help, they were privately investigated by Liberal Party elders. Scott was questioned about his accusations and collapsed under crossexamination. The Liberal leaders then accepted Thorpe's denial. When Scott trumpeted his story this year, former Liberal Chief Whip Cyril Smith immediately pronounced it "ludicrous." But next day Thorpe's credibility suffered a major jolt when his longtime friend Peter Bessell, a former Liberal M.P. who moved to the U.S. in 1974 following a financial scrape in Britain, admitted that he had paid Scott a "retainer...
...affair quieted down for a month. Then, in early March, David Holmes, another Thorpe chum and former Liberal official, volunteered that he had paid Scott $7,000 just before Britain's Feb. 1974 general elections "without the knowledge" of Thorpe. Party Whip Smith, never a close ally of Thorpe's, pointedly told a TV interviewer that he was "frightened by what may yet come out." But Thorpe stood by his insistence that Scott's allegations were "pure moonshine...
...reduced to a role versus the Soviets and Chinese of a "helpless, pitiful giant." Nixon, the author of that phase, and the nation's best pro football fan, would know better than anyone that we need a political Vince Lombardi to alternately stir up our people's prejudices and whip us for our cowardice...