Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delaware gave its three electoral votes to Kennedy but replaced a Democratic Senator with a Republican. Oregon gave Nixon a 40,000-vote majority but elected Democrat Maurine Neuberger to the Senate by 48,000 votes. Michigan, narrowly for Kennedy, chose a Democratic Governor and Senator but elected eleven of 18 Republican congressional candidates and put G.O.P. majorities in both houses of the state legislature...
...Secretary of State for Air went Julian Amery, Macmillan's son-in-law; the eleventh Duke of Devonshire, his wife's nephew, became Parliamentary Undersecretary for Commonwealth Relations. For the honorific task of moving the reply to the Queen's speech from the throne, Macmillan chose his son Maurice from the rank of Tory backbenchers...
...defiance, De Gaulle delivered a short, powerful broadcast. He proclaimed a new course in Algeria: "This course no longer leads to an Algeria governed by Metropolitan France, but to an Algerian Algeria- an Algeria that will have its own government, its institutions, and its laws." If the new Algeria chose to break with France, "we would certainly not persist in remaining by force alongside people who would reject...
...conveniently timed with the 50th anniversary of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, will be a Tribute-to-Sweden Ball at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza-a smorgasbord benefit to raise funds for a new youth cultural center in Jerusalem. On his 74th birthday Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek chose to underscore one of the hottest issues in the U.S. election by journeying to the Nationalist-held island of Quemoy within easy range of the Red Chinese coast artillery. Bedded in Baltimore in a cast, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, 61, president of Johns Hopkins University, got word from doctors that...
...about this deliberate withholding and suppression of information in almost every area of governmental operation is that--until this election--it was needless. With mandates in '52 and '56 so powerful that the men in the Eisenhower government could have told hard, unpopular truths to the American people, they chose instead to play insecure and intimidated roles. Unreasonably afraid of the people's reaction to any sort of bad news at home or abroad, they preferred deception, suppression of facts, and silence, to running the small political risk of being unpopularly right too soon...