Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the talks started last spring, it was Kriss who wrote TIME'S cover on Negotiators Harriman, Vance, Xuan Thuy and the North Vietnamese representative in Pans, Mai Van Bo (May 10, 1968). In that story, the big question was: What really brought the North Vietnamese to the conference table? This time, Kriss had to piece together all the moves and countermoves, all the rumors, all the military and diplomatic reports that suggested a bombing pause was imminent. As he worked, he was helped by TIME correspondents who filed their own analyses from most major capitals of the world...
...candidates themselves seemed resigned to whatever came their way Nov. 5. Nixon was determined not only to win, but to win big so that he could govern with a clear mandate. There was probably not even a notion of what he would do should he lose; law would certainly seem dull. Just as bent on victory -and apparently convinced it is in his grasp-Humphrey would no doubt be better prepared psychologically for defeat at this juncture and would work for the next four years to unite the party...
...learned team soccer at Harvard," Hardy says. "For example, at Glengyle they put the big guys on defense to block the other team's advances, and the offense consisted of fast players who got the ball from the defenders, dribbled all the way upfield by themselves, and tried to score...
HUMPHREY did the same sort of thing at the same time with a lot more success. He let the men and women on the telephone ask their question in their own voices instead of filtering them through an oily moderator, he decorated the proceedings with celebrities, and kept big Ed Muskie at his side to check bouts of verbal diarrhea...
...offensive halfback," Hurley continues, "makes a mistake on blocking, the play might not go, but it's no big thing. But if anyone on the secondary makes a mistake, it can very easily cost you six points, and everyone in the stands knows who's to blame...