Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Computers & Charisma. Though he will avoid a costly electronic assault on 683,000 New Hampshireites-as much because of his stilted speaking style as from the fact that the state has only one TV channel-Romney did challenge Nixon to a debate, which his foe is unlikely to accept. The Michigander also refrained from inundating the state with the traditional gadgetry: only 1,000 bumper stickers have been ordered, along with a few hundred psychedelic posters that show Romney glowing with an inner purple light. Instead, he is depending on a combination of computers and charisma...
...convention period, the human factor rather than the statistical and fiscal in defend ing domestic programs, with heavy use of sophisticated television advertising; 4) revive the enervated Democratic Party apparatus, with emphasis on voter-registration drives; and 5) delay Johnson's overt electioneering as long as possible to avoid voter ennui in the crucial weeks next fall...
...easier to make $1,000,000 honestly than to dispose of it wisely," said Julius Rosenwald, who developed this sentiment while giving away most of his $700 million mail-order fortune (Sears, Roebuck & Co.). Andrew Carnegie was uneasily convinced that "the man who dies rich dies disgraced," and to avoid that humiliation, he began investing a personal estate of $400 million in the public weal. In 1911, after twelve years of uninterrupted and unprecedented generosity, he still had $150 million left. Carnegie solved the problem by establishing the Carnegie Corporation of New York and endowing it with $125 million, thereby...
...dummy is standard size, with six columns instead of eight. It will publish five days a week and skip weekends so as not to compete with the Sunday News.* Likely contributors include Old Herald Tribune Hands Eugenia Sheppard, Dick Schaap and Judith Crist. The News hopes to avoid depleting its own staff and recruit almost entirely from the outside. So far, the Newspaper Guild has responded favorably. "We won't put roadblocks into the launching of the paper," says Guild Executive Vice President Tom Murphy, who is happy to have some new jobs...
...actually on the payroll of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Brown's job: to find "inexpensive solutions to the nation's racial problems." When trouble threatens, Rap is rushed to the spot to deliver inflammatory harangues. Then the Senate can blame the riots on "outside agitators" and avoid spending any money on the slums. A year ago, wrote Baker, a theater script had been rejected as too far-out because it had Khrushchev's nephew defecting to the U.S. and joining the John Birch Society. But life outdid art. "Stalin's daughter defected...