Word: losers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build a parking lot and aquarium on the course, bringing an anguished letter from his friend Herb challenging Stew to a friendly round, "because I want him to see the course from a player's viewpoint." Udall shot a 46 to Herblock's 51, but the loser scored a tactical hole in one at the ninth. Flushed with triumph, Udall announced, "You were right and I was wrong. What we need is more golf courses...
...apartment, supporters hoisted the ex-President to their shoulders and carried him to the window. Fans and foes alike rallied to Kubitschek's side. "Abusive, monstrous and violent measure," said Heraclito Sobral Pinto, president of the Brazilian Bar Association and longtime critic of Kubitschek. "The real loser," said Archbishop Dom Helder Camara, "was not Kubitschek but Brazil...
...Loser Lawrence was no isolated vic tim. Of the 70 million credit cards in circulation in the U.S., no fewer than 1,500,000 are lost each year, and of these 60,000 have been stolen. Illicit charges run up on a stolen card are estimated to average $500. And stealing credit cards is an increasingly popular crime; dollar losses from their misuse increased eightfold from...
...remarriage (one school of thought insists that the birth of his son, Nelson Aldrich Jr., just three days before the California primary worked to his disadvantage, reminding voters of his recent marital situation). There has been little enthusiasm for Richard Nixon since he turned out to be a poor loser in the 1962 California gubernatorial race. Despite Cabot Lodge's strong showings in primaries and polls, he is unpopular with many Republicans who feel that he is, in unlikely combination, too aloof and patrician and liberal; indeed, the main effect of Lodge's New Hampshire primary victory this...
...Other Side. Other Republican professionals note that Lodge is a two-time loser who has not won an election in 18 years. True enough, but that is only part of the story. Lodge has nothing to be ashamed of in his record at the polling places. He won his first five times out: twice for terms in the Massachusetts legislature, three times for the U.S. Senate. He did lose to Jack Kennedy in 1952, which is no disgrace in Massachusetts, and it is hardly fair to blame Lodge for the Nixon-Lodge ticket's squeaky 1960 defeat. Rather, Nixon...