Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Contrasts. Though the Nixon staff claimed that Chicago had been chosen long ago for the campaign kickoff, the contrast between Republican calm and Democratic storm was obvious. About the only reminder of the previous week's violence was the elaborate, often sarcastic courtesy of the police toward reporters. When a TIME reporter asked if he could cross a police barricade, a cop gave a fairly typical answer: "Of course, sir. Anything you want, sir. We're here to serve...
...scene was in sharp contrast with 1964, when a rare air of harmony prevailed and L.B.J.'s ubiquitous aides moved in quickly to muffle any signs of schism. Johnson's men were running things again, in tandem with Daley, but they were far less conspicuous this time?as if they sensed that though they controlled the convention's machinery, they did not control its spirit...
...Communists tem porarily successful, as they infiltrated almost two battalions into the southern fringes of Tay Ninh. In the ensuing battle, the allies were sorely tempted to use heavy weapons on dug-in Communist forces. Bomb-laden jets actually circled over the town at one point. But, in contrast to Tet and the May offensive, when whole blocks of cities and towns were knocked down, artillery and bombs were not used in Tay Ninh, and the Communists finally pulled out-after telling the population that they would be back...
Sawed-Off Mustang. Detroit's new cars, by contrast, will be manufactured entirely in the U.S. and Canada. Ford plans to have its minimodel on the market next April, and General Motors expects to introduce its version in the fall of 1969, at the same time dropping its slow-moving Corvair. American Motors also hopes to produce a small car next year, provided that it can hold down the tooling-up costs. The only automaker without a domestic minimodel in the works is Chrysler, which instead has decided to consider development of what it calls a "world...
...copper industry. His "traveling committee," representing the firm's unions, made its overriding aim to negotiate contracts for all Campbell plants at the same time. Meat Cutters Union Local President Clarence Clark claims that the old system enables the company to "play one union against another." By contrast, management views the current strike as a harbinger of a united labor force that would be able, as Campbell Vice President William E. Harwick puts it, "to turn us on and off" on a company-wide basis...