Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporter Sidey found one small comfort in traveling at Nixon's side: "At last I'm allowed to keep a pencil and a comb. It seemed Kennedy kept me stripped of both articles. In the crushes for autographs, Kennedy has never been known to have a pencil of his own." Another fine point, twangs Iowan Sidey: "It is good to get back with those who speak English. After nine months with all those Boston Irishmen, I was beginning to say 'paaak' for 'park,' and 'Americker' for 'America...
...flew on to Denver at week's end (for the funeral services of his beloved "Min," Mamie's mother Elivera Doud, 82-see MILESTONES). From a purely political point of view, Republicans could take comfort from the roar of the week's crowds wherever he went, particularly those he heard in New York. Clearly his eight-year honeymoon with the American voter had not lost its glow...
...repeatedly crossed the river in bloody attempts to topple Stroessner. But two months ago Argentine officers were shown intelligence reports that Cubans and Russians were financing some factions of the 20,000-man Argentine-based exile army. Army Commander General Carlos Toranzo Montero ordered a halt in aid and comfort to them. In an about-face, the Argentine army snatched back guns and planes from guerrillas, and last week Argentina signed a document pledging "harmonious relations in border areas...
...power, but not to that of big business. It is almost ludicrous to read, "When the United Automobile Workers demand a wage increase from the auto industry, a single monolith is pitted against a number of separate, competing companies." In practice, of course, it is often management that finds comfort in industry-wide bargaining, which eliminates the risk of one company suffering a crippling strike while its competitors continue business. And if we went Goldwater's way, General Motors might be a pretty impressive "single monolith" pitted against a solitary local union...
...what facts he based the statistics and assertions that he so authoritatively delivered the vice-President did not bother to say. Yet Nixon was not the only public figure playing around with economics last Tuesday. In an attempt to comfort voters worried about rising taxes in a state which he is unlikely to win--Indiana--Senator Kennedy attacked the Republican administration as "wasteful" and advertised an impending Democratic government as an "economical one." "I believe in a balanced budget and an honest dollar," Kennedy shouted to a crowd in Indianapolis...