Word: blowup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...edge in September, just after his finger-wagging "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow. Since then, the two have seesawed back and forth, a few points apart. Gallup's latest poll showed Kennedy leading 52 to 48 in surveys conducted just after the blowup of President Eisenhower's trip to Japan. Said Gallup: "The outcome next fall may well be decided not so much by the campaigns as it will by changes in the world situation...
...bearing and his demeanor during the recent and current debacles of the summit blowup and the furor in Japan recall to many a U.S. heart, I am sure, a sentiment that Confucius approvingly ascribes to his pupil Tseng Ts'an: "In a moment of crisis he remains unshaken: Is such a man a Great...
REPUBLICANS. The new importance of foreign-policy issues, stirred up by the summit collapse and the blowup in Japan, shortens the odds on Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge, 57, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Veteran of 13 years in the Senate, Lodge is a tough campaigner who managed General Eisenhower's 1952 preconvention campaign. In Gallup polls he runs third, behind Vice President Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller as the Republican choice for President. As U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for the past seven years, he has acquired national repute as the deft negotiator who talks tough...
...queen mother of the Democratic Party broke her vow of preconvention silence to endorse a ticket headed by Adlai Stevenson. Acknowledging the commanding lead of Jack Kennedy over Stevenson and all other Democratic candidates (see box), Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, 75, nevertheless hoped that in the light of the summit blowup. Kennedy, 43, would show "unselfishness and courage" and accept the vice-presidential nomination, where he would have "the opportunity to grow and learn...
...swiftly that a candidate had to take care with every word, lest a critical statement made in one context bounce back to bruise him in another-as Jack Kennedy discovered. Still the Democratic pacemaker, Kennedy was beginning to regret a remark tossed off in Oregon right after the summit blowup, to the effect that the President might have saved the summit had he apologized to Khrushchev for the U-2 incident. Rolling wearily into Denver one night last week, Kennedy was met at the airport by a teen-aged girl with a Kennedy-for-President placard and a perplexed expression...