Word: favor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pray as he might, George Romney last week found the wind nipping off Mount Washington at ten below zero, the waves of voter popularity running 3-to-l in favor of Richard Nixon, and the need to do right as urgent as the lyrics of his new campaign anthem. Whether coursing New Hampshire's icy highways in his cream-colored Dodge camper truck or standing without earmuffs before factory gates, he seemed tough enough for the weather-if not for the competition-in the first primary campaign of the 1968 election...
...well aware of its weakness here. In October, the Democratic National Committee conducted polls in California, Pennsylvania and New York and found Johnson running well ahead of all the major Republican prospects among voters earning less than $7,000 a year. Citizens in higher income brackets tended to favor the Republican candidates. But much of the middle class is considered to be uncommitted to either party, to swing from election to election depending on personalities and issues. Among the domestic issues that concern them are education, crime and their interests as consumers. Johnson is virtually certain to sprinkle these with...
...future was at stake, and that unless its members went along with him, they would all be out of power after the next elections in 1970. The delegates could only agree. When the vote came, Frei won by a 70-vote margin, and Party President Gumucio immediately resigned in favor of a pro-Frei member. But the leftists still had the last word. By a margin of five votes, they won passage of a proposal guaranteeing workers the right to strike, a law on which Frei had asked for a year's waiver. Frei had once more won control...
...department store in Manhattan decided to compete with rival Ohrbach's in copying original Paris dresses, they automatically turned to Obolensky, who pulled off a smash fashion show using models named Baroness Fiona Thyssen and Princess Ira von Furstenburg. "They were such good girls to do a favor," says Obolensky...
...Reynolds. His ghoulish portrayals of Shakespearean heroes and fantastic chimeras, such as The Nightmare, predated Goya's grotesques by more than a decade and were immensely popular on the Continent. In their desire to get back to nature, the English Romantics also abandoned the ruins of Italy in favor of the English countryside and Alpine vistas. Crusty J.M.W. Turner seems to have been the first artist to visit Switzerland for the sake of sketching its mountains, but his Cottage Destroyed by an Avalanche is a vision of nature's destructive forces rather than the record of any event...