Word: baits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stereo, TV, RDF, ship-to-shore radio, as well as refrigerator, push-button electric anchor, three-ton central air-conditioning unit, and separate power plant. Bored by the waste of time involved in troll fishing, its skipper located fishing holes with his electronic depth gauge, then sportingly set out bait and hook. Sleek and awesome as a jet fighter, as it nosed through the same waters, was a 16-ft. home-built craft powered by a 450-h.p. sports-car engine. "I wanted a hot boat,'' said its owner. "This engine was souped up until...
...Administration aimed its biggest guns at beating down Southern Democratic opposition to the Kennedy bill. Speaker Sam Rayburn swung among Congressmen from Texas to Tennessee, telling them that a Democratic President's prestige was at stake. Other proponents dangled patronage bait, reminded doubting Democrats that Kennedy will soon be awarding 73 new federal judgeships. They also warned that any "nay" voter surely would be branded as "antilabor"-an argument that particularly moved the Democratic co-author of the Landrum-Griffin labor law, Phil Landrum, who yearns to become Governor of Georgia and would like labor's support. Stepping...
...fill his seats. The commonest hookcrook is the "twofer," a pasteboard promising to sell the bearer two tickets for the price of one more or less. Press gangs range from Westchester to Harlem (where a growing middle class provides some of Broadway's steadiest customers) to drop twofer bait at insurance offices, union halls, colleges, doctors' waiting rooms and similar waterholes...
...liberal Democrats, who would assure the free flow of liberal legislation through the committee and thereby end Virginia Conservative Smith's control over the House calendar (TIME, Feb. 10). Then, Smith and his conservative committee colleagues were accused of obstructionism. Last week, as he called up the constituent bait resolutions and forced the committee liberals to vote them down, Judge Smith was setting the stage for a future time when he can accuse the liberals themselves of being obstructionist...
...himself was named to the agency's top spot at 32). Distressed at reports that Bell & Howell was trying to lure Peterson away. Harper three years ago informed top McCann executives that Peterson was his chosen successor. But Peterson ignored the offer, jumped to Bell & Howell when the bait was sweetened to include a huge stock option. As president, Peterson will continue to run Bell & Howell's photo products division, will also concern himself with the company's new electronics subsidiary...