Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scranton's brand of Republicanism is popular. Senator Clifford Case is a dedicated Scranton supporter, and many other delegates are known to favor the Pennsylvanian. Yet last week, after Goldwater appeared and spoke before the delegation, it voted to go to San Francisco uncommitted, thereby denying Scranton a breakthrough just when he needed one. In Delaware, Goldwater picked up a handful of delegates without lifting a finger; Senator John Williams, who had been set up as a favorite son in a holding action against Goldwater, announced for Barry and promised to release the delegation. In Michigan, Governor George Romney...
There were, of course, disappointments. While Scranton's cause was helped by the reaffirmation of Ohio's 58-member delegation to vote for a favorite son, Governor James Rhodes, on the first ballot, Scranton's hopes for a breakthrough in the Illinois and Indiana delegations were rebuffed. Early in the week, Scranton stopped by the Capitol Hill office of Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, pointedly suggested that Ev would make a "great favorite son." But Dirksen was having no part of such a holding action. He was convinced that Goldwater had a strangle hold on the Illinois...
...flaw, it is perhaps that Chekhov tries to make pathos do the work of tragedy. If the sisters and the men around them draw their breath in pain, they rarely raise a finger against fate. They are small sinners and great talkers. Masha comes closest to making a breakthrough to life by falling in love with an unhappily married colonel (Kevin McCarthy...
...notable breakthrough has been made in this architect-builder standoff, and made by one of the top builders in the U.S. - California's Ross William Cortese, who is discovering that architecture is not only selling his buildings but cutting his costs...
WORCESTER, Mass., June 10--President Johnson revealed today that the United States has recently "achieved an economic breakthrough in the use of large scale nuclear reactors for commercial power" that places the country "years ahead of its planned progress...