Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocky flew back toward New York -with brief but enthusiastic stopovers in Seattle and Boise, Idaho-he left no doubt that he was looking for a fight. Even the most devoted followers of Dick Nixon could no longer assume that their man can win without first meeting Rockefeller's challenge...
Inside Room 832 of Washington's Shoreham Building the carpet had not yet been laid and workmen were still installing telephones. But even in the chaos of moving day, Room 832 was as busy as an anthill. Its mission was supposed to be a secret, but nearly everybody in Washington knew that staffers of the new Nixon Club were beaver-busy organizing a presidential campaign under the benign and smoothly efficient direction of the most successful Republican political cam paign manager in U.S. history-Leonard Hall of Oyster...
...intricacies of the party's machinery than any other man. The fact that he is no friend of the other G.O.P. candidate on the horizon. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller (Hall clearly wanted the Republican gubernatorial nomination that went to Rocky last year), has put Hall even more solidly in Nixon's camp...
...running into the red in its international transactions, with the result that U.S. gold reserves are shrinking as gold flows overseas to balance the nation's accounts. If the gold outflow continues for even a few years, it could endanger the value of the dollar, with shaking results for the entire world...
...widespread failure, at home and abroad, to grasp how radically the world economic picture has changed over the years since World War II. Back in the late 1940s, the U.S. was the principal source of the world's manufactured goods, exported far more than it imported. Result: even with U.S. tourists spending millions abroad, U.S. troops stationed around the world, U.S. Marshall Plan dollars pouring into Western Europe to rebuild shattered economies, and Point Four aid flowing to underdeveloped countries, the U.S. ran up a surplus in its overall international accounts. Gold trickled into the U.S. Treasury from abroad...