Word: basely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more important than the primaries. While Kennedy must surge ahead in both to capture the Democratic nomination, Hubert Humphrey's best hope of braking a Kennedy bandwagon is to continue outpolling all other Democrats. In re-entering the Republican race, Rockefeller has become the first presidential candidate to base his campaign almost wholly on polls. He can win the nomination only if national surveys convince G.O.P. regulars that Nixon will lose in November. But those surveys now put both Republican contenders ahead of all Democrats-and if that reading continues, the regulars may well stick with Dick...
...vote in last September's presidential elections. Geographical (Southerners v. Northerners) and religious (Buddhists v. Catholics) representation was better balanced than in the Cabinet of his predecessor, Nguyen Van Loc. But Huong, like Loc, assembled a group of technicians rather than politicians, who could have broadened the base of popular support for the government. In fact, he retained six of the old ministers in the 18-man lineup...
...Haiti's southeastern mountains, cut across the heart of Port-au-Prince, and dropped two homemade bombs near the presidential palace and two more on the capital's Bowen Field. Only one of the four exploded. Banking to the north, the plane then headed to a clandestine base located somewhere outside Haiti, apparently loaded up with more bombs, and proceeded on to a small airstrip near Cap Haitien. There one and possibly two other larger planes had just landed with 20 well-armed men, probably trainees from secret camps in the Bahamas. Thus last week, for the eighth...
...this bullet could have caused fatal hemorrhaging. A third slug burrowed from the corner of the right eye into the jawbone. The fourth traveled from a point under the right nostril into the hard palate. The fifth bullet went through the roof of Williams' mouth, then to the base of his skull, coming to a halt beyond the pituitary...
Winfield is pre-med. Tom Williamson, star safety on the football team, plans to be a legal services lawyer, "a base for becoming a lobbyist for poor people." Bobby Johnson, swingman for the basketbal squad, thinks he'd like to go into psychiatry to study the "irrationality of racism...