Word: empts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, he has not been seriously discussed for national office. One reason is that Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a fellow liberal, has managed to pre-empt the title of Mr. Republican in New York, and in 1960 and 1964 tried his best to get the G.O.P. presidential nomination. Javits had little choice but to support Rockefeller's White House aspirations. The Senator will be 62 next week; 1968 will be his last chance. Last week he completed an elaborate minuet whose burden was Javits for Vice President...
Only a few years ago, requiems were being performed over the retail book trade in the U.S. Time-consuming TV and the faster pace of modern life, feared the booksellers, would pre-empt serious reading. The book clubs with their vast mail-order lists and, most of all, the price-cutting discount houses were challenging the conventional bookstore. Leonard Schwartz, president of Manhattan-based Brentano's, predicted that many booksellers would not survive discounting...
...decision on the John F. Kennedy library which the president will build at Harvard to house his official papers. Kennedy has reportedly been deciding between sites on Soldiers Field at the bend of the Charles River or on the Charles at Western Ave. The WGBH building may pre-empt the latter sight...
...deeply concerned with the image of our city. The facts are that there is no crime wave here and that there is no intention on the part of our neighborhood and community organizations to pre-empt the work and functions of the police, as some reports would have...
...unique bright land is increasingly defiled by badly located freeways and housing subdivisions and industries which needlessly destroy beautiful scenery and entomb agricultural land; by reservoirs and watercourses which unwittingly encourage the growth of mislocated communities; by waste products; by cars and jeeps and cycles which pre-empt our very living and breathing space. Already, the state's nose is bloody. How long before its whole magnificent body is beaten to deformity? How long before the bright lands are dead lands?" Every Californian can cite his own pet example of the slurban blight. In San Francisco, the famed waterfront...