Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Eastern-clique business is a fetish with Goldwater and his followers; they constantly compare 1964 to 1952, when, they insist, the Republican kingmakers of the industrial Northeast cheated Robert A. Taft out of the Republican nomination. The comparison, of course, is absurd. Bill Scranton has not achieved the national stature of a Dwight Eisenhower, and Barry Goldwater is far, far from being a Bob Taft. Moreover, the storied kingmakers who launched Ike into politics-and thereby won undying enmity from the G.O.P.'s conservative wing-did not catapult Scranton, or anyone else, into the race...
...distance is traditional, and both coach Harry Parker and captain Harry Pollock insist that the break between the sprints and the trials will do the boat good. Last year the Crimson beat the Elis by eight lengths...
...that also buy prose from the pros-writes Palmer's copy; the line drawings illustrating the text are traced from photographs taken of Palmer in Pittsburgh in 1959. About the only editorial control that Sam Snead exerts over his column, which has been running since 1940, is to insist that he be shown wearing that familiar Snead trademark, the porkpie straw...
...February. It has languished in the chamber of winds during the longest filibuster in history, still faces substantive amendment under a bipartisan agreement achieved by Republican Everett Dirksen. Civil rights groups, without being specific, claim that it is too weak. The bill's opponents, without being specific, insist that it is so strong as to ruin the framework of the Republic. Herewith, what the civil rights bill, including the Dirksen amendments, would...
Keeping the Reins On. Fred Kappel contends that A.T.&T. needs still higher profits to grow on, but he runs into opposition in Washington, where Government officials insist that his company is already too profitable and too powerful. In terms of return on net cost of plant, the usual gauge of profitability in utilities, A.T.&T. earns somewhat more than the average: 7.2%. The General Services Administration, representing the Government as a user in regulatory hearings, has recommended that Bell's return should be limited to 6.6%, and the staff of the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the Bell...