Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...running mate. In the interim, Nixon acquired a gut fighter's reputation that softened only after his forced retirement by defeats for the presidency in 1960 and the California governorship in 1962. Now he enjoys the active support of such diverse Republicans as Barry Goldwater and Jacob Javits, Strom Thurmond and Nelson Rockefeller...
...shuns Hubert Humphrey and the national Democratic ticket, refusing to compromise his single-minded opposition to the Viet Nam conflict. Party regulars are supporting him lukewarmly if at all. Despite a loyal army of 25,000 youthful McCarthyite volunteers, O'Dwyer seems certain to furnish liberal Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, 64, with his biggest majority in a 22-year string of victories...
...Ervin and Ernest Hollings of South Carolina-Seem virtually assured of reelection. Democrat James Allen, a conservative Southerner, is a cinch to win the seat of Alabama's retiring Lister Hill. Five Republicans-Illinois' Everett Dirksen, New Hampshire's Norris Cotton, New York's Jacob Javits, Utah's Wallace Bennett and Vermont's George Aiken-are likewise rated as shoo...
...stumps the state, replaying his record as a champion of urban causes and civil rights and his own call for peace in Viet Nam. Once a supporter of L.B.J.'s war policy, Javits began voicing disquiet in February 1967. To O'Dwyer, that makes Javits a Jacob-come-lately to the dovecote. Yet even O'Dwyer does not go far enough for radical New York peace protesters; last week a group heckled him by parading with a pig's head on a platter. Two others bared their disapproval by turning up nude...
...Evidence. Among the first to protest the A.I.A. plan was Jacob D. Fuchsberg, vice chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Automobile Law. Fuchsberg. who also happens to have a prosperous private practice in auto-damage cases, charged that the A.I.A. members merely wanted "to get the Government off their backs." Another vocal critic of the A.I.A. recommendation was Vestal Lemmon, president of the rival National Association of Independent Insurers, whose 480 affiliates (including State Farm Mutual and Allstate, the two biggest auto insurers) write more than half of U.S. auto-insurance policies. Lemmon raised serious doubts...