Word: exit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shock at the Communist victory in China and the French defeat in Vietnam--a defeat, as I have noted, by a Communist Party that had achieved leadership of a nationalist movement. And at each juncture that we felt ourselves losing our grip, we increased our investment. Opportunities to exit with a modicum of grace were regularly by-passed in the expectation of eventual success. And now that that success seems further off than ever, our stakes have been transformed, and exit is infinitely harder...
...three offerings thus far this season: Pantagleize, a fantastic farce by the Belgian Michel de Ghelderode; Exit the King, Ionesco's stark philosophical play about death; and The Show Off, George Kelly's domestic drama of 1924. A pleasing dramatic palette...
...Step Aside. Thus the President's withdrawal promoted the McCarthy cause in somewhat the same way that George Romney's exit left Richard Nixon a clear field in this week's New Hampshire primary. McCormack, his nephew, former State Attorney General Edward McCormack, O'Brien and at least 20 others promptly resigned their delegate posts. Democratic National Chairman John Bailey explained that he had counseled Johnson to eschew the primaries, telling the President that it would be better to "forego the votes of these few states rather than step aside from leading the land and become...
Within hours of Romney's rocketing exit, Nixon and Rockefeller were adjusting to the new rules of play. Nixon, the sole surviving announced candidate of stature, had been cruelly deprived of an easy victim in at least three primaries: New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Nebraska. He had to find someone-or something-to run against and prove his ballot-box muscle. But Nixon's status was clear, his rhetoric free of cloying coyness, his organization smoothly functioning. For Rockefeller, the adjustment was far more complex...
...reasons for George Romney's abrupt exit from the New Hampshire primary last week are abundantly clear in a Roper poll commissioned by TIME. Like Romney's own samplings, the Roper survey-completed just before the Governor's decision-presaged humiliating defeat for the Michigander at the hands of Richard Nixon. On the Democratic side, the poll also indicates that the write-in campaign for Lyndon Johnson will end in a handsome victory for the President. The results...