Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monster in the Woods. There is only one thing that worries the Nixon people now-the imponderable Wallace Factor. "You look at this Wallace thing," says one close adviser. "It's like sitting by the campfire knowing there's a monster out there in the woods. But you don't know how big it is." The nagging anxiety is that there may be hidden Wallace supporters who are ashamed enough of their vote to shy away from pollsters, but who are not ashamed enough to shy away from the polling booths. "We can't be sure...
Some particularly close and significant House contests...
Humphrey and Nixon disagree significantly on the longer-term issues of defense spending, disarmament and the draft. Nixon wants to invest more in missiles to increase the U.S.'s narrowing lead over the Soviets, while Humphrey emphasizes that one of his chief concerns would be to close a disarmament deal with Moscow. Nixon favors spending $3 billion or more to build a professional army that would do away with the need for a peacetime draft. Humphrey is for a lottery draft...
...Soviet leaders have in mind," observed U.S. Ambassador to NATO Harlan Cleveland. He referred to the fact that the Warsaw Pact forces moved into Czechoslovakia without having prepared a quisling regime or accurately gauged the Czechoslovaks' solidarity. Added Cleveland: "If the Russians couldn't read their close neighbors, the Czechoslovaks, any better than they did in August, how well are they reading us in October...
...distinguished only by their combat experience and their foibles. Major Taffy, 34, Welsh and a veteran of the Fifth Commando mercenaries of the Congo, thinks he is bulletproof. By now, so do the federals, who have reported him dead at least five times since last December. Taffy came perilously close to being killed a few weeks ago, when a round smashed into his binoculars. Short-tempered, he curses his black troops constantly, threatening to kill them if they don't obey orders. "You rotten bastards!" he roars, when things go wrong. "You bloody, treacherous morons...