Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Such a future campaign is made possible by the singular crusade of Teddy Kennedy in 1979 and 1980. He learned about the nation. More important, he learned about himself. It was believed last fall by Ted Kennedy and almost everyone else that a person who had come through the assassination of two brothers and the personal scandal of Chappaquiddick, and who had served 17 years in the U.S. Senate, was prepared for big power politics. These assumptions proved to be almost entirely wrong. Kennedy could not articulate any appreciation of the economic anguish of Middle Americans. Nor did he understand...
Raja'i is unlikely to be much more than a front man for Beheshti and his clerical allies. The new Prime Minister is unimposing in person; he has no popular following and little apparent political savvy. Critics say that he is "headstrong" only when standing on firm ground. Arrested for distributing antigovernment literature in 1974, Raja'i is said by fellow inmates to have begged for mercy when tortured by SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. "His behavior at the time was certainly not heroic," notes one former prisoner. Students in his math classes at the Kamal...
Bradley had mixed results as a matchmaker. Tuesday night a Kennedy supporter who had worked two years for Carter refused to be interviewed. "That was the biggest disappointment for me tonight," Bradley said. "He wasn't a name, but he is the kind of person Carter needs if this whole thing is going to come together." Another time, Bradley arranged a potentially combustible joint interview with two feuding delegates from Maryland; on camera they were all sweetness...
...House have stood up for him. He does not have friends in other areas." This man recalls how L.B.J. once hustled off to Georgetown to sell his Great Society to a collection of reluctant corporate executives. Johnson ate and drank with gusto, told stories, recalled almost every person's name from old encounters, removed his coat and straddled a chair backward, and explained for hours his grand vision of abolishing poverty and giving every child in the U.S. a chance to thrive...
...three teen-agers whose Pinto was rear-ended in 1978. After a dramatic trial, the giant automaker won. Last week it compensated the parents of the three girls. The total amount: $22,500. In exchange, the families promised not to sue Ford in civil court. The $7,500-a-person payoff is a mere fraction of the million-dollar settlement Ford has agreed to in some of the 50 civil suits involving the ill-fated...