Word: contrasts
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Organized & Dull. In defense and foreign policy there is a similar contrast between the Republican product and the Republican sales pitch. A recent Gallup poll shows that 64% of U.S. voters feel that the defense position of the U.S. is better now than it was under the Truman Administration. The Republican campaign has done little to capitalize on this highly favorable voter conclusion...
...contrast to Farmer Christopher, Massachusetts' MacDonald is running in a suburban Boston district-and he certainly has the proper credentials: he is a onetime Harvard football captain; he was Senator John Kennedy's college roommate; he has a lovely wife, former movie actress Phyllis Brooks, who ladles out pink, nonalcoholic punch with complete grace and aplomb...
...same day, voters went to the polls in Austria, where elections are free and secret. The contrast was striking. In the Russian sector of Vienna, the Communists got 8.6% of the vote; in the Soviet-occupied province of Lower Austria they...
...starvation, as distinguished from long-range underfeeding. If Dubos takes well-fed mice, but omits their feedings for 30 hours (not long enough to cause obvious physical distress), they become suddenly susceptible to artificial infections, which prove rapidly fatal. Some chemicals also have this effect-notably sodium citrate. (By contrast chronically undernourished mice can maintain a normal level of resistance...
...contrast, Herter has a solid backlog of party support and legislative achievement. In the first half of his term nearly 95 percent of his recommended legislation became law, and since then party loyalty has not dwindled. Despite Democratic fears to the contrary, the Herter record indicates that tax reductions need not bring a stagnation of public programs. In addition to the projects already mentioned, Herter has expanded state educational facilities, created low cost housing for senior citizens, and increased payments under unemployment compensating. He also succeeded in the long neglected streamlining of several departments that grew in sprawling and wasteful...