Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slighted. The McGovernites have been curiously inattentive to some of their wealthiest potential backers. In California, Millionaire Max Palevsky, who has contributed $350,000 for the McGovern campaign so far, felt slighted that he was not named finance chairman. Some, like San Francisco Realtor Walter Shorenstein and Los Angeles Realtor Harold Willens, are cautiously waiting to see how McGovern's campaign shapes up before they commit their funds. Says Shorenstein: "Our system requires a growth economy. You have to have free enterprise and competition and a good business atmosphere. If we are going to inhibit opportunity with heavy taxes...
...credentials question came up? And what would constitute a majority on the question?the 1,509 needed to nominate, or the 1,433 that represented a majority after the contested California delegates were subtracted? If McGovern won on California, he had the nomination. If he lost, Humphrey Aide Max Kampelman said hopefully, "he'll completely lose his momentum. That puts his whole count in question...
Britain's grande dame of arsenic-and-old-lace thrillers, Agatha Christie, 81, was very upset. So was her husband, Sir Max Mallowan, who wondered aloud to reporters "if this fellow read her book and learned anything from...
Thus the death of the founder of psychoanalysis is recalled by his physician Max Schur in a new book, Freud: Living and Dying (International Universities Press; $20), completed just before Schur's own death in 1969. Addressed to both laymen and professionals, the book is at the same time a portrait of Freud's last 16 years, when he was waging a losing battle with cancer, and a study of his views on death as they developed throughout his life...
...must suffer some "just punishment before there is a hope of holding the match." Spassky, who maintained a cool, detached air throughout most of the negotiations, said: "I am the world champion. Now it is I who shall determine when or whether the match shall begin." Moaned F.I.D.E. President Max Euwe: "I don't understand it myself. When Spassky is here, Fischer doesn't come. As soon as Fischer comes, Spassky runs away...