Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every region except the South, where people are excited about a presidential candidate from Dixie. Despite drives to sign up new voters, the registration totals, compared with 1972 figures, are expected to drop by well over 1 million people in New York and 600,000 in California. Said a Bostonian who has been trying to enroll voters: "It's shoveling against the tide...
...speaks of love, healing and balanced budgets and the angry populist Carter who laces into the fat cats and promises Government programs that sound expensive. Perhaps Carter's worst problem is still the fact that most voters do not feel they know him. Admits Gerard Doherty, the Bostonian directing the Carter campaign in New York: "People still feel they haven't seen him or smelled...
...Manhattanite Kathryn Bridgman, 25, "Ford exuded the personality of an overcooked noodle." But Bostonian Sam Jones, 28, felt the President "sounded much better than usual." Nettie Goldstein, 63, of Skokie, Ill., dozed through some questions, but what she saw led her to conclude that "they both came off very well." Frank Amarillas, 39, of Douglas, Ariz., disagreed. Said he: "Carter shouldn't grin because it's a gentlemen's debate. Grinning hurt...
During the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, a local Catholic priest received a phone call from a Boston clergyman asking what steps the church was taking to cool the hostilities. The answer did not completely satisfy the Bostonian. Last fall the Little Rock priest dialed his Yankee colleague: "I'm returning your call," he said. The Bostonian hung...
...talking and triple-talking aides below? Why, in the city of the Adamses and co. is the City Council filled with the likes of Hicks and anti-everything councilman Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, a man who openly brags about the handgun he packs, whose reactionary voting record a native Bostonian friend of mine calls "one bizarre package," and who himself until recently referred to Hicks as his "steady girl...