Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business 50%, shut down stores that depended primarily on Negro trade. Incensed at the boycott, alarmed because Tuskegee-encompassing Macon County is 84% Negro, Senator Engelhardt, officer in the lily-white Alabama Association of Citizens' Councils, hatched a king-size gerrymander. Last week, by a 21,012-vote margin, Alabama voters approved his constitutional amendment to abolish Macon County...
...decreased revenues and difficulty in cutting back nonmilitary spending have made the request all but inevitable. Said a White House aide last week: "We're right at the brink-you'll pardon the expression-of going over the debt limit. We're within a very small margin now, and have a very small cash balance." Treasury Secretary Anderson has assured congressional finance committeemen that he can hold out until Congress reconvenes next month. Capitol Hill, in turn, believes that, after appropriate howls of anguish, Congress will approve the increase rather than cut domestic programs in an election...
Tufts jumped off to a 4-0 lead, and kept control of the game throughout. The margin increased to 18-8, with Bert Muench tallying 10 of the Jumbo markers, mostly on 20 foot sets. At halftime the Jumbos led, 44 to 33, behind a 60 per cent shooting average...
...margin remained fairly constant at 10 points for 15 minutes of the second half, when the varsity staged a desperate full court press to break up a stall. Bob Repetto hit for seven points in less than two minutes to close the gap to 62-58, but Tufts was able to withstand the pressure and retain its advantage...
...mighty Teamsters (1,400,000 claimed members), who had arrogantly elected Tough Boy Jimmy Hoffa their president (TIME, Oct. 14). Under the relentless prodding of President George Meany, a tough guy of another stripe, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. voted to throw out the Teamsters by a 5-to-1 margin...