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...myriad U.S. political pulse takers, no one was more confounded by last week's elections than that presumably savvy gent, the local party boss. Between widespread (and carefully calculated) ticket splitting and outright reversals of voting form, the 1960 election hit many a state political machine like an earthquake, shattering cherished preconceptions and not a few careers...
...thesis Kennedy exhibited a touch of the pedant, replete with myriad footnotes and obscure statistics. There were also a few flagrant rhetorical and grammatical errors: "Even Churchill's speeches... was not the vigorous demand that it was come...
...many, the current business slowdown is really an adjustment to the consumer's growing predilection for the myriad new services his money can buy. "This causes dislocations within the economy," explains Sears, Roebuck Chairman Charles H. Kellstadt, "but given the level of gross national product and disposable income, it is no cause for alarm. It simply reflects the fact that our rising standard of living has made us a predominantly consumer-oriented economy. It is not a case of not growing, but of growing in a new direction." In the past five years the real output of services...
...East-West leaders refrain from dragging the Cold War into the United Nations the organization will survive the present crisis. If, however, they insist on waging their battle for world supremacy through the U.N., the world organization will be crippled and the myriad problems that lie outside of the East-West conflict will remain largely unsolved...
...leading to the Mystic River Bridge. Now the Health Board has drawn a sinister blue line to separate it from the rest of Boston. Beyond the line, the North End contains an Italian village which is in many places very pretty. You can't drive there conveniently--the myriad one way streets are difficult to navigate--but it is the place to go to look for monuments...