Word: controller
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Campaign wounds, of course, heal quickly, and a certain amount of rhetorical violence is accepted and forgiven in U.S. politics. By lowering his voice -as he surely will-and turning to the daily task of building a record on which he can run in 1972, the President can control many of the events that will shape his re-election chances. He must act to get the economy under control, and he must move back toward the center, where majority opinion in the nation lies. It would be surprising if he did not learn from this election that divisive politics...
...Republican Howard Baker won a Senate seat in 1966. Gore was the obvious challenge for Brock this year. The Gray Fox, as Gore has come to be called, was out of tune with Tennessee. He is pro-civil rights and antiwar, in favor of gun-control legislation and against compulsory prayer in public schools. Gore also voted no on Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell...
Thus Gore wrote the outline of Brock's script. Issue by issue, Brock attacked systematically: gun control, school busing, the Haynsworth-Carswell votes, school prayer, support of the President on Viet Nam. Said Brock of the Senate doves who took credit for giving impetus to Nixon's latest peace proposal: "They disgust me?all of them, including Albert Gore." Ken Rietz, a partner of Harry Treleaven, the political TV consultant, came from Washington to manage Brock's campaign. "We did not underestimate Gore," said Rietz. "We never assumed that he was a dead dove." Aside from an advertising blitz that...
...ranks fifth on official lists. Some radicals, by contrast, have fallen from power, particularly those who gathered around Mao's wife Chiang Ching. Among those conspicuously absent from the National Day parade: Politburo Members Hsieh Fu-chih and Chen Pota, both powerful proponents of the Cultural Revolution. Army control, however, is far from complete, and the radicals have not given...
Died. Peter II, 47, last King of Yugoslavia; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Peter was eleven years old in 1934 when his father was assassinated; seven years later he took full control of the government from a council of regents and led a brief campaign against Axis invaders before fleeing to Britain. Formally deposed by the Tito government in 1945, the ex-monarch, who had left all his riches at home, worked as a public relations man in New York City in the early '50s, more recently as a savings and loan executive in California...