Word: candidates
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...call "Henry the Deuce. " But Carey, 59, apparently has not yet won his campaign for Anne, 35. When they returned to New York last week, he asked reporters to stop asking about the subject. But he was more expansive when discussing politics and personalities in a series of candid interviews in both the Bahamas and New York with TIME Senior Editor Marshall Loeb. Excerpts...
Kansas Republicans achieved the historic feat of sending the first woman to a full term in the Senate without any help from a husband's previous political career.* To be sure, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 46, did not hide the fact that she was 1936 Presidential Candidate Alf Landon's daughter, no handicap in Kansas despite Landon's humiliating loss to F.D.R. But she proved a candid and outgoing campaigner, and her fresh personality meshed neatly with the voters' yearnings for change. Her opponent, Democrat Bill Roy, a physician and lawyer, had run unsuccessfully for the Senate before and had been...
...frauds and scoundrels" who pump "stale bilge" around this "lugubrious ball." But even a man of such laser eye as Mencken confessed that after damning politicians uphill and downdale for years, a certain faith in the process kept re-emerging and he looked to politicians "to be able, diligent, candid, and even honest." That is a tall order, but one suspects that we will all be at it again in the next couple of months...
Thus the struggle became a complex triangular fight between the House, Senate and President. The reasoning at the White House was that Carter would take his stand on holding down the budget deficit, fighting inflation and limiting the tax cut. In a low-key, candid meeting with the Senate's Russell Long and House...
Whatever else may be missing in the People's Republic, China and the Chinese more than compensate the open-minded visitor. The Foreign Friend leaves with indelible memories effaces and places, good manners and memorable food, candid conversation and cultural confrontation. A jumble of vignettes on a parchment scroll...