Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used more effectively-and at public expense to avoid domination by the richest candidates. Why not devote national network time to each major candidate for a full day or even two? For once, voters could view the whole man instead of fleeting images. On a more practical level, security can be sharply improved. Had the Secret Service been guarding Kennedy last week-as it will guard presidential candidates from now on-the route through the Ambassador Hotel's serving kitchen would have been scouted and secured by at least seven agents. Kennedy would also have had the benefit...
Given the conservative mood of California Republicans over the past four years, Senator Thomas Kuchel had become almost an anachronism, the last high-level moderate in a state party dominated by George Murphy and Ronald Reagan. In last week's G.O.P. primary, voters decided to retire Kuchel. By nearly 67,000 votes out of 2,168,117 total cast, he lost the Republican senatorial nomination to California Superintendent of Public Instruction Max Rafferty, a granitic conservative...
Pray for Baptism. The most notable recent spread of faith healing and glossolalia has been among college-level Roman Catholics. The movement began last year, when three young theology instructors at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh met to pray and found themselves, according to their testimony, simultaneously speaking in tongues. Similar experiments have since been tried at other Catholic schools. At Notre Dame, there is a cell of 30 glossolalia enthusiasts, including students and teachers from nearby St. Mary's College, who meet one night a week for prayer session...
...keep his upper lip stiff against the problems of the pound, a prohibitive investment income tax, Common Market blackballs and Prime Minister Harold Wilson's accusation of "sheer damn laziness." Now comes a study showing that for all his pains, the British executive is paid at a level that is far and away the lowest in Europe...
...differences are considerable. A vice-presidential-level production manager at a consumer-products company with annual sales of $20 million stands to earn from $17,000 to $25,000 a year in Italy, $15,000 to $25,000 in France, not to mention such perquisites as a company car. The Briton in the same job can expect to pull down only half as much. The Briton does get more perks, including an entertainment allowance, housing assistance, a car, sometimes even a company endowment to help foot public-school bills...