Word: falters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everybody's second choice. That seems to be the presidential strategy of Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, 54, who has plans of emerging as the compromise nominee after the front runners falter and the Democratic Convention is deadlocked. A multimillionaire Texas businessman who is not given to quixotic pursuits, Bentsen has tried to hug the middle of the road more closely than any other candidate. A wobble either to the left or the right makes him distinctly uneasy. "Others are trying to move toward the middle of the party," he says. "But I don't have to move...
...doing so, the President is making a calculated economic and political bet. If it wins, the U.S. will take a long step toward energy self-sufficiency at a relatively low cost. If it fails and big increases fan rapid inflation, the recovery that gained momentum in July could well falter-just as the 1976 elections draw near...
...hand may shake and the stride may falter, but good old cowpokes just never quit. After 34 years of movie retirement between them, Cowboy Stars Roy Rogers, 63, and Joel MeCrea, 69, will be riding the range once again this summer in feature-length films. Rogers, who left movies 21 years ago and now runs an Apple Valley, Calif., museum, will star in Mackintosh and T.J., his 90th picture. "There's no leading lady, no shooting, some fights, but no blood spurting, and that's the way I wanted it," he says. MeCrea, who left 13 years...
...leading hawk on the crucial question of how to negotiate with the Arabs. He is thus a man that Premier Yitzhak Rabin (not to mention Kissinger) must reckon with. Peres almost defeated Rabin for the premiership last April, and is a plausible candidate to replace him if Rabin should falter...
Such a repetitious maneuver is exquisite torture for the corps de ballet, but it danced with a purity of feeling and tautness of leg muscle that did not falter. Nureyev's staging was a light modern gloss on the original Petipa choreography. It was also an exercise in personal nostalgia: La Bayardère is the crown jewel of the Leningrad Kirov Ballet where Nureyev was trained...