Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there were indications that Carswell's announcement had caught the White House by surprise and might hurt G.O.P. chances rather than help them. For Carswell's candidacy threatens to tear the Florida party apart in a bitter primary contest with Representative William Cramer, a tough, conservative G.O.P. veteran in the House. Cramer, who already had President Nixon's blessing for the race, stoutly refused to bow out. Last July, he said, Nixon called him to the White House and said: "Bill, the Senate needs you, the country needs you, and I need you." Added Cramer: "The President...
Violence is no stranger to Lawrence, a community of 40,000 in Kansas' eastern-border country. A century ago, m the bitter Border War over whether Kansas and Nebraska would be slave or free, guerrilla bands moved back and forth across the Kansas-Missouri line, pillaging at will...
...that recent near-fiasco, a pro posed constitutional amendment for direct election of the President was passed by the House of Representatives. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee added its approval and sent the amendment to the floor for a debate that is expected to be long and bitter. Since the House vote, there have been some serious second thoughts about the plan...
Died. Héctor Garcia Godoy, 49, Dominican diplomat and politician, a candidate for President in the May 16 elections in his troubled Caribbean nation; of a heart attack; in Santo Domingo. A moderate leftist, Garcia Godoy rose to prominence in 1965 as provisional President following a bitter civil war and subsequent U.S. military occupation. Though received with suspicion by both the right and the left, he proved an able conciliator and for ten months kept the country together until it was possible to hold free elections...
...rest of Losing Battles is devoted to remembering and burying Miss Julia. She spent a bitter life in a Sisyphean struggle to nudge Banner out of its happy bondage of ignorance and kinship into the modern world. The symbol of her defeat is Jack Renfro's beautiful wife Gloria, a Mortimer protegee who actually won a statewide spelling bee and succeeded Miss Julia as schoolteacher. "She stands for all I gave up to marry you," says Gloria. "I'd give her up again tonight. And give up all your family...