Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice-President's best decision was to schedule several early evening showings of a remarkable half-hour campaign biography, filmed by a firm that has sent hordes of congressmen and senators into office with similar production. The art of it all is not impenetrable and contrivances cloy a bitr, like the ending, which shows a barefoot Humphrey pushing sand on a deserted beach like a pudgy reincarnation of John Kennedy...
...circulated the report nationally, along with well-named "ripper" amendments. Hill and Knowlton, a public relations firm versed in conservative causes, joined the campaign. (Hill and Knowlton formerly represented such clients as the gun lobby, the tobacco lobby, and the steel industry during the 1937, 1952, and 1959 strikes.) Under their direction, pamphlets of anti-labor research material were sent to newspaper writers around the county to encourage anti-NLRB editorials...
...Nixon below the critical 270-mark in the Electoral College, Humphrey must take, besides those states conceded him, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kentucky, Connecticut, Washington and Delaware. Either he or George Wallace must eke out a majority in Tennessee, South Carolina, and Arkansas, and Wallace must otherwise hold firm...
According to John Becker, president of Becker Research Corporation, a firm that has polled for Governor John A. Volpe (R-Mass.) and Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.), there is a "hidden" Wallace vote that will siphon off potential Nixon strength...
...General Motors' most pressing concerns is keeping Washington pacified. As the world's largest manufacturer, the company has long fretted over the possibility of antitrust action, even though it has taken over no domestic passenger-car firm for 50 years. Sensitive to the Administration's inflation worries, G.M. Chairman James Roche recently played the part of a diplomat in meeting with White House economists be fore announcing price increases (aver aging only 1.6%) on his 1969 models...