Word: nixon
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...other Republican suggestion, VicePresident Richard M. Nixon, lost to all five Democratic candidates, receiving only 38 per cent of the total vote. Independents and Democrats definitely preferred Rockefeller for the Republican nomination, although Republicans gave him an edge of only two per cent over Nixon...
This percentage differs widely from that obtained in a Young Republican Club poll completed last night. Sixty-seven per cent of the members preferred Nixon to Rockefeller Republican nominees...
Taxpayers: Rich . . . The committee grew out of the "Operation Pan America'' that Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek proposed last June as a way of repairing the damage done by the stones flung at U.S. Vice President Nixon in Lima and Caracas one year ago. Kubitschek's idea man and delegate, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, frankly sees the committee as one more chance for Latin America to play Scheherazade to the U.S.'s sultan. "Every night," explained Schmidt, "we have to tell the U.S. a story so that we can continue to live. Perhaps after a thousand...
...Emmy Awards (NBC, 10-11:30 p.m.). The TV world's own Oscars, handed out by some celebrated well-wishers, including Vice President Nixon...
...fact that both India and Pakistan are admitting that differences have mellowed will ease American foreign policy problems in the Near East. Nixon's proposals for aid are indicative of the new respect India is gaining in American eyes as a bastion of freedom, "the battleground of democracy" as he phrased it. Ideally, India would become a little more like Pakistan in its resolute anticommunism and Pakistan more like India in its democracy--thereby ending the triangle of suspicion which has existed between these two powers and the United States...