Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WITH one week to go in the presidential campaign, Hubert Humphrey's late surge has whittled Republican leads in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington to almost nothing and placed several more states in the tossup category. Still, the Democrats cannot claim to have won any new states, and a nationwide survey by TIME correspondents shows that Richard Nixon is likely to carry 29 states commanding 278 Electoral College votes (needed for election: 270 votes...
...McCoy's temporary teachers form one of the brainiest public school staffs in the country. Eager, dedicated and inventive, with a heavy emphasis on the Ivy League-"I'm a bum," quips one principal, "but all my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits"-they come early and stay late, refusing to bow to the stale pedagogic commands that emanate from 110 Livingston Street, the Board of Education's central office in Brooklyn. Many have attended law school, and regular teachers complain bitterly that they are in Ocean Hill only to escape the draft...
...York's divisive Democrats relish a bruising battle-particularly when it is among themselves. Their 1968 performance is typical. Irish-born Attorney Paul O'Dwyer, 61, brother of the late mayor of New York William O'Dwyer and an early supporter of Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential bid, adamantly 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...
Brown knotted the score late in the period with a sharp shot past Harvard goalie Wayne Quasha, but the Crimson bounced back with 40 seconds left in the period. Russ Vaughan poked a long kick past the Brown goalie and Marchese fired on an empty goal to put Harvard ahead for good...
Most students said they thought the endorsement would not influence many McCarthy backers to vote for Humphrey. "Everyone has made up his mind already," one student said, "and I don't think this will change anything." Another student said he thought that McCarthy made the endorsement so late in the campaign with the conscious intention of diluting its effect...