Word: falterer
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Although his support is widespread, it could falter, as it apparently did last week in Iowa where Muskie won only 35.6% of the delegates elected in precinct caucuses while McGovern-who was expected to run poorly-won 23%. Also, big city blacks could turn to Hubert Humphrey in reaction against Muskie's veto of a black running mate. But at this point Muskie looks like the winner in the Midwest...
Hunger became a problem in Seattle almost two years ago, when the city's economy began to falter because of the layoff of 63,000 workers at Boeing, Seattle's largest employer. An ailing forest-products industry added to the problem, and the result was an unemployment rate of about 12% at the start of 1972. Of the 1,400,000 people living in the three-county area in and around Seattle, 72,500 were out of work...
...week was Amintore Fanfani, 63, four times Premier and most recently president of the Senate. A short (he claims to be 5 ft. 6 in.), brusque, brash former economics professor, he is the candidate of the Christian Democrats, the largest party in the governing center-left coalition. Should he falter, former Premier Aldo Moro is more than willing to replace him. Moro, also a Christian Democrat, has visibly moved from the center toward the left of late, even as Fanfani was moving from left to center. Fanfani's other chief rival is Francesco de Martino, Deputy Premier...
...grinding erosion caused by monetary and trade uncertainty may yet affect U.S. ambitions for turning its payments account around by a huge $13 billion. If economic growth abroad continues to falter, foreign businessmen and union leaders may well insist that their governments raise still higher barriers against imports. In that case, they would also resist pressure for currency revaluations that would make U.S. goods more competitive in world markets. Raymond Barre, French vice president of the Common Market Commission, warns, "In this affair, time runs in no one's favor. It runs against everyone, the U.S. included." Unless...
...Then as a great, oppressive silence fell over the spectators, Gourdin started, his spikes swishing through the air. They flashed in the sunlight and his powerful strides had carried him to the edge of the jumping pit. He had measured his stride perfectly, and he did not have to falter or shorten or lengthen it. Then he bunched his strong body together, and, as he leaped high and far, it looked as if he were a human projectile fired from some unseen and unheard...