Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nowadays Reynolds spends much of his spare time in Florida on the 160-acre ranch that his father, newly reconciled, runs for him. "I feel like the Marlboro man there," he says. But increasingly the Marlboro man is being lured back to Hollywood to woo the Perle Mesta of the Bel Air set, Dinah Shore. It all began when Dinah, 19 years his senior, had Burt on her show last summer. Oscar Levant once said he couldn't watch Dinah because he had diabetes. But, as Dinah tells it, the show she did with Burt would have been...
...further effort to woo the youth vote and to counter the Democrats' party reform that allowed a record number of young people to become delegates to their convention, the Republicans have reserved 3,000 gallery seats at their Aug. 21-23 convention in Miami Beach for young G.O.P. volunteers. Their presence is intended to offset the fact that only 10.7% of the Republican delegates will be under 30 years old v. the 23% that the Democrats displayed...
Ulster Protestant politicians know this only too well and are rushing to woo the U.D.A. The love is not returned, however. The U.D.A. is a working-class movement and wants no truck with Unionist politicians who "let the Ulster people down." What the U.D.A. really fears is Ulster's being "sold out" to a united Ireland-and it swears it will fight that prospect to the death...
What ABC and its affiliates seem to overlook is that not only Cavett and Nielsen but the whole ratings system is once again on trial. Cavett's literate charm could probably never match the broad appeal of Carson's accomplished vaudeville or woo away the diehard movie buffs. But should he have to? If he cannot, should the more than 3,200,-000 viewers who want his brand of intelligent alternative programming be summarily disfranchised...
...McGovern staff devoted most of its efforts to tightening its communications network, which is commanded from three trailors behind Convention Hall. By late yesterday morning, a staff member had been assigned to each delegation, with the emphasis centering on pressuring Muskie, trying to woo the 275 delegates he holds...