Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote neared, Ford realized that he had no chance to win. The 50 or so Southern Democrats he could count on were nearly offset by about 35 Republican defectors. There followed some intricate maneuvering over whether the Democrats should force a roll-call vote -adding to the Republicans' distress-but the Democrats finally settled for an anonymous teller-vote victory over the Quie amendment...
...Some months ago, Bobby Kennedy put in a call to Louisiana's Senator Russell Long and got Missouri's Senator Edward Long on the phone by mistake. "Oh," said Bobby, realizing what had happened, "you're the good Long." "Yes," Ed Long joked back, "and which Kennedy...
Beyond equipment, there is the matter of modern training. Athletes have always trained, but never so scientifically, so intensely. Glenn Cunningham, who set a world mark of 4 min. 6.8 sec. for the mile in 1934, used to call it a day after a lazy three-mile practice run; Jim Ryun, the University of Kansas sophomore who last year lowered the record to 3 min. 51.3 sec., runs at least twelve miles a day, lifts weights to increase lung capacity and competes against sprinters in relays to sharpen his speed. No longer do athletes worry about becoming musclebound, says Chemical...
...BGMA membership two weeks ago authorized the group's officers to call a strike at the officers' discretion. Yesterday Robert S. Richardson, president of the BGMA, said that it was "just a matter of timing" to determine when the union will...
...paragraphs in the article, almost all are either wholly or in part in error; the others are irrelevant. The student who would like details in refutation of these paragraphs is invited to call or visit any of our institutes at his convince. Meanwhile, the examination of one paragraph, typical in its lack of information of most of the others, should suffice for providing insight into the nature of the article as a whole...