Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worker." Charles Harting Percy was not simply indulging his paternal pride. In his hard-hitting campaign to unseat Illinois' three-term Democratic Senator Paul Douglas, 74, comely, honey-haired Valerie Percy, 21, a June graduate of Cornell, proved one of Chuck Percy's doughtiest aides. With sunny enthusiasm that made the task seem effortless, she recruited and coordinated hundreds of youthful Percy-for-Senator volunteers, helped set up 22 campaign centers in the Chicago area, made dozens of warm little speeches for her father. She toured the wards wearing a winsome smile and a button that said...
...long-odds underdog last winter when he resigned as board chairman of Bell & Howell to devote all his energies to the Senate race. His dynamic, articulate campaign since then had steadily propelled him ahead of aging Paul Douglas. The liberal Democrat's dignified but tired electioneering stirred little enthusiasm. His immovable stand in favor of open-housing legislation-a particularly explosive issue in Chicago-and his consistently pro-civil rights votes on Capitol Hill cost Douglas the support of many fearful whites. Against the advice of campaign aides, Percy has also come out in favor of modified open-housing...
...tune in on Comsat's broadcasts. Such prophets as RCA's David Sarnoff foresee the day when it will be possible to reach every home in every country by direct broadcast from a satellite. Not everyone, of course, can be expected to view this possibility with enthusiasm. The Russians would not like the idea of every dacha in the Ukraine receiving broadcasts from New York, nor would the U.S. wish to hear instant Communist propaganda broadcasts on Channel...
...Tufts squad arrived screaming with enthusiasm and appeared formidable in the opening two minutes when the wind helped the Jumbos keep the ball in Harvard territory...
...happy hyperbole was perhaps a bit overheated, but he did have rea son for enthusiasm as South Viet Nam's election results flowed in last week...