Word: eds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trailer he fastidiously covered his bottle of beer with a brown paper bag. Strauss, in white shirtsleeves, leaned forward on the couch, a phone to his ear. A call had just come from the Maine delegates threatening to abandon Carter unless they received a statement from their favorite son, Ed Muskie, the Secretary of State, that he definitely would not run. Jordan quickly picked up another phone, dialed the President at Camp David and asked him to get Muskie to make the call...
...Ed Bradley of CBS was also canvassing delegations, but there was nothing unobtrusive about it. More famous than all but a handful of the Democrats on the floor, Bradley was slowed by autograph seekers and fans asking him to pose for photographs. Like Wilkie, he had to develop solid sources to stay on top of convention developments. He also needed interview subjects who would go on camera with timely information. It was new-style political reporting at its most trying...
...must deal with that question, along with all the other questions that feed into it, is Edward Irving Koch, 55, mayor since 1978 and, as Sydney Greenstreet said of Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, a real character. If New York is a taxi, Ed Koch is its driver?quick-tempered, belligerent, opinionated, chatty, protective, frank and possibly nuts. He usually speeds, and sometimes he drives on the sidewalk. His enemies are "crackpots." To everyone within earshot he asks, "How'm I doing?" Two out of three of those surveyed have answered: good...
Koch's success story is classically New York. His parents were immigrant Jews from Poland. During the Depression, Koch's father lost his fur business in The Bronx and moved his wife and three children to Newark to share a two-bedroom apartment with four other relatives. Ed, 12, helped support the family with tips he earned by operating a hat-check concession in a catering hall...
...looked like a rehearsal for Celebrity Allstars. Rarely have so many famous TV and movie names come together in one spot: Carroll O'Connor, Erik Estrada, Ed Asner, Henry Winkler, Cheryl Ladd, John Forsythe, Telly Savalas, Alan Alda, Hal Linden, Walter Matthau. But the actors who gathered last week in front of the 20th Century-Fox studios on Pico Boulevard were not playing roles. They were marching up and down Pico as part of a strike that has stopped production of most new TV shows and feature films...