Word: benefited
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...even safe to say, for example, that Johnson would be a shoo-in if he ended the Viet Nam war. Ironical ly, the G.O.P. could benefit, since there would then be no hesitation about "changing horses in midstream," and the key issues would become the President's personality and his management of the Great Society...
Balance of Power. Domestically, the Great Society is certain to figure as a major issue, and it is by no means certain to win votes for Lyndon Johnson. "There is not such massive impact in the programs-at least not that much redounding to the benefit of the Democrats," says former Census Bureau Director Richard Scammon, an astute political observer. "If there were, the Democrats would have won in 1966 without losing a seat...
...next best thing to invention is discovery. Americans have given the sporting world the benefit of their inventive genius (baseball, basketball); now they are about to be repaid. They may even get a boot out of it. Professional soccer, the most popular spectator sport in the world, outside of girl watching, is coming to the U.S. in a big way. And if the TV moneybags have guessed right, the likes of Emment Kapengwe and Horst Szymaniak will shortly assume heroic stances alongside Willie Mays and Johnny Unitas...
...independence of Moscow and reaching out toward their old neighbors in the West-and the U.S. is doing its best to encourage them. A big factor in this movement is a growing awareness among the satellites that conventional Communism-particularly when applied to an overall scheme designed chiefly to benefit the mother country-simply does not work as an economic system. The breakup began with Rumania's refusal to accept Russian directions at the 1961 COMECON meeting...
...young whose complexions and dispositions benefit from the pill. Many a woman entering menopause, confident that soon she can forget about contraception, is advised to stay on the pills because they postpone many of the stigmata of age-dryness and wrinkling of the skin, sagging bosom, edginess and depression, and a reduction of vaginal secretions that may make intercourse too painful...