Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Respectability is the problem," according to one Massachusetts political observer who claims that the suburban Irish-Italian vote is the pivotal one in state-wide elections. He claims that this bloc, especially the Irish part of it, was anxious to repudiate past performances by Democrats. The bloc therefore passed over any Democrat who had a connection with old-fashioned politics and voted for the Republican. He cited the re-election of of Secretary of State Kevin H. White, Treasurer Robert Q. Crane, and Auditor Thaddeus Buczko, all Democrats and all men who have no connection with the Democratic party...
...Freedom Fighter. A flight of Philippine F-5s snapped into escort positions around Air Force One when President Johnson took off on the Manila-to-Bangkok leg of his Southeast Asian trip. Belgium and The Netherlands are about to order the planes. This month Morocco's King Hassan, anxious to retire his aging Russian-built MIG-17s, will take delivery of a dozen...
...more money to expand and keep its lead in the business. Meanwhile, having branched out from automobiles to leasing everything from construction cranes to hospital beds, Hertz may be able to help its new parent. RCA is coming on fast as a manufacturer of computers. But most customers are anxious to lease such equipment rather than to buy it. Hertz's longtime leasing experience will be handy...
...failed to mention that the project had had political enemies in a state that President Johnson is anxious to see solidly Democratic again. Segregationist Sen. John Stennis had attacked CDGM consistently since its inception in 1965, and even moderates who backed the Administration had complained that the project was controlled by excivil rights workers preaching "black power" and separatism. Apparently, part of the price of a Democratic Mississippi was CDGM's demise...
McNamara's appeal did not seem to move either side at the time. Said Jennings: "I don't buy the argument at all." But the negotiators then moved to a windowless room in the basement of the Labor Department building where, under the anxious eye of Administration mediators, they finally hammered out their agreement. For months, labor-management analysts had been saying that the G.E. contract would set the pattern for more than 30 major industries over the next year. When last week's settlement was reached, it was difficult to see how it could...