Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buildings can build new hope. They can be representative of a "fresh new start." With people like Mr. Owings, knowing they hold this precious key with all the social responsibilities that go with it, the year 2000 may indeed be universally welcomed...
...must capture the imaginations of many Democrats and independents who are largely reconciled to the Big Government he likes to berate and have been cool toward Nixon in the past. At the same time, he must reckon with the disinherited, principally Negroes, who in some states can hold the balance in a tight election...
...attractive candidate in many ways, has never fully understood the differences between the politics of nomination and the politics of election. In three leap years, he approached the party as if it were a collection of voters on election eve instead of a coalition of interests about to hold a convention. It is a failing shared by the liberal Republican leadership, which apparently learned little from its rejection...
Michigan, under Governor George Romney, and Ohio, under Governor James Rhodes, were subject to raiding by Nixon. But the gains to be made there were not worth the cost of antagonizing their powerful leaders, who clung to their status as favorite sons. Romney was apparently prepared to hold out indefinitely. Rhodes, who had been generally regarded as eager to be in line with the winner, remained surprisingly stubborn. Not so secretly, he wanted a Rockefeller-Reagan ticket as the strongest draw in Ohio and, despite a well-earned reputation for sagacity, held out some hope for its success...
Before the address, McCarthy people will hold a rally on the Boston Common featuring speeches by Michael Feber 2G, recently convicted of conspiracy against the draft, and George Wald, professor of Biology and winner of the Nobel Prize...