Word: rankings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this reminiscence is that Jimmy Carter is possessed of the same drive, and as he pounded over the hills of Catoctin Mountain in pursuit of a 46-min. time for the 6.2-mile course, he surely had in the back of his mind the historical footnote that would rank him as the first President to run that far some place other than in a primary election...
...also excite rank-and-file donors. Said Cook County Republican Leader Sharon Sharp: ";After you hear Connally, you want to run up and give him a check." Candidate Robert Dole lamented recently to a meeting of his Massachusetts supporters: "When John Connally comes to Boston, he takes out a vacuum cleaner and sucks up all the money...
...attempt to break some new ground, both a modification of what Price has called "diary music" and a tentative rapprochement with "have fun" tunes. It may seem like a transitional record. But first cut to last, it sounds like a good time, the restless work of a front-rank pop talent...
...sense of decay arises also from all of society's smoking frictions of rapid change, the anxiety caused by a sense of impermanence. The nation's creative forces, however, remain remarkably strong - in the sciences, for example, where achievements in physics, mathematics, biology and medicine rank beside anything so far accomplished on the planet. Before anyone tries to use too seriously the awful and thrilling word decadence, he ought to distinguish between the customary mess of life and the terminal wreckage of death...
...Palm Springs, Calif. A third-generation labor organizer, McDonald claimed, "I was born with a union spoon in my mouth." In 1959 he staged one of the costliest strikes in U.S. history-a 116-day walkout. Under fire as a "tuxedo unionist" who had lost touch with the rank and file, he surrendered his post in 1965 to his deputy, I.W. Abel...