Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Direct contacts on Romney's behalf have been made with Republican leaders in New Hampshire, New York, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Mississippi. The Governor's aides have already made a straw count of convention delegates; they figure that they can now count on some 500 first-ballot votes, while Nixon probably controls around 550 (required for the nomination: 667). They have solicited New York Senator Jacob Javits to suggest a speechwriter. They have borrowed New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's research files from his 1964 attempt to get the nomination...
...away until sundown. They cut out most of a passage describing how Caroline Kennedy, then nearly six, learned of her father's death from her nanny. They condensed her reaction into two words: "She cried." There was considerable paraphrasing where Jackie's own words had been used. Direct quotes from two letters that Jackie had written to Jack-one while she was holidaying in Greece a month before his murder, the other written after his death and placed in his casket-were reworded and trimmed drastically. Cuts were made in all four installments of the Look serial...
...countries combined. The increase in the past year alone was 6% - twice the anticipated rise. As a result, in late September and early October the Post Office suffered some snarls and snafus - particularly in Chicago, the nation's busiest relay point. Even after that crisis abated, one large direct-mail company reported a ten-day delay in sending third-class mail from Manhattan to Brooklyn...
...trying to improve its financial condition, however, the Guardian may be adding to its journalistic troubles. It already has far fewer reporters than either of its direct morning competitors-the Times and the Daily Telegraph-and it is being criticized for running too many features and too little news...
...James J. Saxon, until recently Comptroller of the Currency, saw it, "Enclaves of monopoly and stagnant, unprogressive banks should not be safeguarded." Implementing that peppery philosophy during his five controversial years in office, Saxon approved 3,806 new national-bank branches, many of which were in direct competition with state-chartered banks. Fighting back, state banks in nine states so far have sued to close some of Saxon's federal branches. Last week the Supreme Court decided that Saxon had stretched his powers...