Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockefeller were adjusting to the new rules of play. Nixon, the sole surviving announced candidate of stature, had been cruelly deprived of an easy victim in at least three primaries: New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Nebraska. He had to find someone-or something-to run against and prove his ballot-box muscle. But Nixon's status was clear, his rhetoric free of cloying coyness, his organization smoothly functioning. For Rockefeller, the adjustment was far more complex...
...beginning of last week, the Michigander's own opinion sampling and other polls showed Romney trailing by 6 and 7 to 1 (see box overleaf). The aroma of failure would make delegate-foraging in non-primary states difficult. Romney's campaign had already cost $1,000,000 by the estimate of National Campaign Manager Leonard Hall, and would have required $2,000,000 more by the August convention; yet contributions were becoming scarce. Johnson, Hall and other Romney advisers decided that withdrawal was the only feasible course; no recovery seemed possible in Wisconsin, Nebraska or Oregon. They relayed...
...surprising amount of the new critical spirit looks toward the U.S. as the best instrument and prod for government reform (see box). Only a month or so ago, a South Vietnamese who publicly suggested U.S. interference in the government ran the risk of being charged with "licking the American boots." Now the crisis has convinced many Saigon politicians of the need for more, rather than less, U.S. direction and firmness in guiding the government to reform and action...
Lilliputian Variant. Now, in the newest twist in tapes, a variant on the cartridge has come along that is even more convenient and Lilliputian than the original. Called a cassette, it encases a tape and two tiny reels within a plastic box scarcely bigger than a pack of cigarettes. It snaps into a player as handily as the cartridge does, but it must be removed and turned over at the midpoint of its playing time, which averages 40 minutes. Since it moves even more slowly than the cartridge, it sacrifices still more sound quality. But it boasts two big advantages...
...chronic patients are kept in custody. "I was put in a bedroom with 16 other men," he said, "screaming and urinating all over the place. I stayed in the hall and told the black attendant spook stories. . . ." He became more and more excited and finally was put in the "box," an empty room "with cement all over, small windows with bars and an iron door. I was told to take off all my clothes . . . it was cold. I was not allowed to have water. I was given one blanket. There was nothing to urinate in. I screamed all night...