Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chances were something like hitting the daily double five days in a row, but the Republican high command began to wonder if they weren't worth a bet. Three days after election, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton had asked party leaders in eleven states to evaluate the narrow Democratic results and see whether expensive recounts (e.g., $50 a ballot box or voting machine in Pennsylvania) would be worthwhile. Most of the party leaders sent negative replies. But last week, after an emergency meeting of the National Committee in Washington, G.O.P. investigators moved into eight marginal states (Illinois, Texas, Missouri...
...ordered them to disperse. Instead, the mob moved on to Carondelet Street, headquarters of the city's school board. There fire trucks backed up another police line, finally scattered them with billowing streams of water. All afternoon and evening, gangs of whites and Negroes prowled the narrow, ill-lit streets of the French Quarter, stoning cars, attacking luckless individuals who came their way, tossing homemade Molotov cocktails through darkened windows. Before the rioting ended, New Orleans' tough, alert police, working on extralong, twelve-hour shifts, had arrested 240 persons (215 of them Negro) on charges ranging from loitering...
...robots is not yet at hand: as projectors of public opinion, humans unquestionably outperformed machines last week in predicting the close result of the presidential race. Three out of four pollsters picked Kennedy to win by narrow margins, while TV's electronic brains forecast a landslide Kennedy victory, offered odds ranging from 5 to 1 to infinity. Many a late-night returns watcher echoed Republican Campaign Manager Len Hall: "I think we should put all these machines in the junkpile...
...phrase "Terry Baker" had become the all-purpose good word around the tidy Oregon State campus in Corvallis. An ambidextrous, introspective, gangling sophomore, Terry Baker has a pale pink face, an Adam's apple that dances when he talks like a walnut on a string, a curiously narrow torso and a pair of thick, rock-muscled legs. At 19, Baker is still a growing boy of 6 ft. 3 in.. 195 lbs. Right now he has the most impressive record in college football. Going into last week's game with Stanford, Baker was running and passing...
...member of the "neoclassical synthesis" school of economics-an amalgam of Keynesian insights and classical theories. He does not believe that the best government is the least government, but neither does he think that direct wage and price controls or government ownership is desirable. Because businessmen sometimes take a narrow and personal view of government policy, based on their own interests, e.g., tariffs, Samuelson says that "our thinking is somewhat at cross-purposes with business philosophy...