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Eager. Either way, the losses are equally disturbing. If the planes were lost because of malfunctions, what precisely went wrong? And if they were shot down, what happened to the planes' sophisticated protective gadgetry? In theory, the F-111 flies so fast and so low that radar cannot lock onto it and antiaircraft crews can hardly see it, let alone track...
...loss cast doubts on the future of Ferré's New Progressive Party, which broke the Popular Democratic Party's 28-year lock on the Governor's mansion in 1968 largely because of a major split in its ranks. With Ferré out of office and his statehood platform discredited, the Progressives will likely join Puerto Rico's myriad other minority parties. As if in recognition of the fact, Ferré announced his retirement from active politics shortly after the election...
...Gallo lock, stock and wine barrel are the brothers whose names are signed on many Gallo bottles...
Creeping Thing. McGovern workers in Chicago were confident, despite adverse polls, that their man had a fighting chance now that they had Mayor Richard Daley on their side, lock, stock and poll watchers. They prided themselves on their realism, a fact verified by a Daleyite who was prepared to hate the kids until one showed up "so full of vim and vigor and so willing to listen to my advice that I guess I softened." As Columnist Mike Royko mused, Daley, after his humiliation at the Democratic Convention, "has to enjoy seeing all those admiring liberal faces looking...
Ever since they managed to wrest control away from the Republican Reconstructionists in the post-Civil War days, the conservative Democrats have had a hammer-lock on state politics. Although its specific interests have changed over the years, the Texas political elite has become more sophisticated in its dealings rather than more responsive to the needs of the diverse Texas constituency...