Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dismal Tidings. Despite his long lead for the nomination, Humphrey may enter the campaign as the distinct underdog. Nixon's high rating in the polls is part of the reason, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia is likely to enhance his appeal. Because Nixon still has the reputation of being a tough antiCommunist, he stands to benefit from Moscow's raw assertion of power...
...distended bellies, shriveled chests and matchstick limbs crippled from edema. The world has protested in the form of silent marches of New Yorkers outside the United Nations building, impassioned debates in Britain's Parliament and West Germany's Bundestag, shillings and sixpences collected by Tanzanian schoolchildren and in the appeal of a "deeply distressed" Pope Paul VI. Despite the world's horror, the efforts of the Organization of African Unity, the personal intervention of Emperor Haile Selassie and four separate confrontations across the bargaining table, the fighting and the starvation...
Blue Crew. Scientology today has 22 headquarters in six countries and claims to have a membership in the thousands. In the U.S., where it operates ten "churches," it seems to have a strong appeal for hippies. Though Hubbard "retired" two years ago, when he sold the good will of his name to the movement for $240,000, he keeps in touch by Telex with international headquarters in Britain...
...NASA's heavily slashed budget at its disposal, the once-ambitious U.S. planetary-exploration program is in danger of expiring before it gets to the launching pad. Anxious to keep from "abandoning the planets to Russia," 23 top space scientists last week recommended a program designed both to appeal to congressional penny pinchers and to reach the planets. In the next seven years, the new plans could take unmanned U.S. spacecraft to Jupiter and beyond...
...Long Island over job security, the union conceded that its men were refusing to work overtime to service trains and were scrupulously following federal safety rules that had long been ignored. But brotherhood officials also charged the railroad with "union busting"; at week's end they vowed to appeal a federal-court preliminary injunction ordering an end to the slowdown...