Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conscious of the distance he must travel, Romney last February hired Campaign Consultants Inc., a Boston-based firm operated by Lawyer David Goldberg and others who ran the masterly write-in campaign that gave Henry Cabot Lodge a surprising 12,000-vote victory in New Hampshire's 1964 primary. Goldberg's workers ceaselessly prowled the state for weeks in an effort to make contacts for Romney, and now, says Goldberg, "there's more organization for Romney than most people have two months before the primary." He may need it. Nixon for President Committee Chairman Dr. Gaylord Parkinson...
...whom Tshombe already knew. One was a Frenchman named Francis Bodenan, whom he had become acquainted with a few weeks earlier, the other a Belgian named Marcel Hambursin. The remaining passengers were a convicted Belgian swindler, Charles Sigal, and his wife Yvonne. Using the name of a fictitious firm for a cover, the four had chartered the plane from a London air-taxi company. They were real estate developers, they explained, and wanted to examine some sites in the Mediterranean on which to build new hotels...
...Draft Resistance Group can offer free legal assistance. Victor Rabinovitz, a prominent left-wing lawyer, has agreed to send up a man from his firm, Mungo says, whenever a client of the Group faces trial. So far, two have been put on trial for refusing induction and one of them has already been sent to jail...
...credited his election to the fact that he has "no firm political line." "My political views are still very much in the process of developing," he said. "I guess people just thought they're developing in the right direction," he added...
...completely rationalize our involvement in Vietnam. We are there partly as a result of a long series of seemingly minor steps. Each of these steps, at the time, seemed more attractive -- less pregnant with domestic political controversy and criticism -- than the alternative which was to call a firm halt on our involvement. The aggregate of these individual steps -- more weapons, more advisers, a combat role for our men, progressive increases in our troop strength, bombing of North Vietnam, a widening choice of targets -- is larger by far than the sum of the individual parts. The resulting involvement of the Asian...