Word: alters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rassemblement du Peuple Francais and later became the Union pour la Nouvelle République. Its policy is whatever the general says, its followers a mélange of those who want stability above all: the establishment, the petite bourgeoisie, the farmers. In an effort to alter the party's autocratic image, De Gaulle has proposed greater participation by workers in factories and by students in universities. Prospects: possibly a gain in seats if backlash from continued violence grows...
...most interesting changes was right near the top, where the relative positions of the really big firms seldom alter. General Motors was still the biggest industrial corporation in the U.S., as well as in the world, with 1967 sales of $20 billion and net earnings of $1.6 billion. But Ford Motor Co., which had been No. 2 in national standings, fell to No. 3. Moving into second place behind G.M. was Standard Oil (New Jersey). Sales under Chairman Michael Haider (TIME cover, Dec. 29, 1967) were $13.3 billion last year, or nearly $2.8 billion higher than Ford...
...political campaigns. Whereas Europeans generally vote for parties rather than individuals, U.S. campaigning requires the candidate to plunge into crowds, to "press the flesh" until his right hand bleeds, to ride in open cars, to stand silhouetted against TV lights. Nor is the assassination in Los Angeles likely to alter such techniques. Two weeks before his death, Robert Kennedy himself told French Novelist-Diplomat Remain Gary: "There is no way to protect a candidate during an electoral campaign. You have to give yourself to the crowd and from then on count your luck." Kennedy, of course, pressed his luck recklessly...
Pistol & Cards. While all this was going on, Ray was in Lisbon calculating his next move. He apparently attempted to alter his fraudulent passport, but only got as far as changing the d in Sneyd to a. At the Canadian embassy in Lisbon he told the consul: "My name has been misspelled," and was issued a new passport on May 16. Thus, with the two cards and pistol in pocket, he flew off to London and incarceration at Cannon Row police station, a stone's throw from...
Casimiro Morcillo Gonzalez Let no one, from without or within harbor the least hope of being able to alter in any respect our institutional system...