Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate at the urging of the late Robert Kennedy, Republican Incumbent Hickenlooper decided to retire. Pitted against Hughes, a genial 6-ft 2-in., 230-lb. giant, is moderate Republican David Stanley, 40, an able state legislator. At one point, Hughes looked like a sure bet. But he now figures he will need 150,000 to 200,000 votes from Republicans to save himself. Conceded Hughes last week: "It's going to require a lot of ballot crossing...
...bet this is the first speech like this you Harvard boys have ever heard." Wallace said at one point, apparently addressing himself to hecklers near the front of the crowd. "You just wait til November," he continued. "You make lots of noise now, and you've had more influence on national policy than the good people of Massachusetts have had, but the day is coming when they're going to have their...
...maintain a C average. Denny insists that he was really better than that. "I went to school like I pitch," he says. "I am as good as I want to be. I could study 20 minutes and pass a test. Or I could pass without studying. I'll bet I didn't crack twelve books in four years...
Within his party Richard Nixon represents the only centripetal force. The country is troubled, the opposition divided. The rational course is to play it safe, to bet that self-preservation?just staying together as a party?will be nine-tenths of victory. It is, after all, an election in which the incumbents are in danger simply because they are incumbents. Nixon's choice of the factionally neutral Spiro Agnew as running mate was part of that strategy...
...sures him of no more than a transitory moment of glory. Pennsylvania's patrician ex-Governor William Scranton, however, is convinced that Evans' speech will make a more significant impact. Scranton, one of the Republicans whom Dan Evans admires most deeply, dropped him a note last week. "I bet him a buck that when he made his keynote speech there wouldn't be any big hoopla," recalled the Pennsylvanian. "I bet him that it would take the delegates a day?24 hours?to realize that he had much...