Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Republicans, who had previously hacked out only a tenuous toehold in the South, last week went a long way toward making it a firm foothold. In addition to returning its first popularly elected U.S. Senator in Tennessee, the G.O.P. provided Governors in Arkansas and Florida for the first time since Reconstruction and may possibly claim a gubernatorial victory in Georgia as well. In 13 Southern and border states, the G.O.P. made a record modern-day gain of nine congressional seats. This year, moreover, many of the South's leading Republican candidates were able to discard the Goldwater umbrella...
...willing to debate an anti-war spokesman at Harvard? If he would, then a demonstration might be unnecessary. Gordon doubted that the idea would be acceptable, but said he would check out the proposal with the Institute's directors, Richard Neustadt and Frank. The answer was, as expected, a firm...
...sting. A reference to "the 13 Frenchmen who actually fought in the last war" is followed by a summation of Lyndon Johnson in his Viet Nam visit: "Shortly after he arrived, he left." An African head of state is asked by an English interviewer about his country's firm resistance to Red Chinese infiltration. "If God had meant there to be yellow men," the chief explains, "he would have made them like you and me." Hendra and Ullett, both 25, arrived at their joint lunacy three years ago when they went to work in a London nightclub owned...
...with the Silver Spoon. Son ot a Stavanger shipowner who started out in the days of sail, Bergesen spent 20 years dutifully propping to take over the family firm. Then, in 1935, he struck out on his own: his father, then 72, seemed unwilling to retire -ever. Bergesen bought a 14,000-ton tanker and put it into a long term charter. Using the ship as collateral, he later purchased a faltering shipyard in Stavanger at a bargain price, installed oversized construction docks, then cashed in handsomely after World War II as one of the few European builders who could...
...habit of walking the three miles from his suburban home to his Oslo office each morning, while a chauffeured limousine trails behind. Nine years ago, the rivals got an unexpected recruit, when his son Berge Sigval Bergesen repeated a bit of family history: he broke with the family firm, railing that father found it "impossible to retire." Now 48, Berge has his own charter operation called Sigship. Warily staying away from tankers, he specializes in bulk carriers - many of them also leviathans in their class...