Word: nods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MIDWEST: Nod fora Native Son Whether the Democrats nominate Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy, the candidate will be a Midwesterner, and the native son figures to win 83 electoral votes to 45 for Nixon and 21 undecided. For Humphrey: Illinois (26), Michigan (21), Minnesota (10) and Ohio (26). For Nixon: Indiana (13), Kansas (7), Missouri (12), Nebraska (5), North Dakota (4) and South Dakota (4). Up in the air: Iowa (9), which is breaking out of its former conservative mold; and Wisconsin (12), which would be Nixon country if Neighbor Humphrey were not so popular there...
...around bookstores waiting for their free copy of the book and Radio Havana poured out endless plugs for it. Castro practically had his choice of publishers for editions outside Cuba, has already authorized five other publications in Europe and the Western Hemisphere. In the U.S., he gave the nod to the leftist Ramparts magazine, and publication of the diary in Ramparts last week set off a mad scramble among other magazine and paperback houses for republication rights; at week's end, they were still locked in legal maneuvers...
...former president of Southwest Texas State College, which boasts one really distinguished alumnus, named Johnson. The new Ambassador to Australia, Bill Crook, is known as a "good guy," but he is also a Texan. The fact is, not many Washingtonians-or Americans-really care now who gets the Johnson nod...
...left with the impression that most human feelings are absent in Tarbox. Though Piet has a momentary infusion of paternal love, it seems like no more than a nod to that feeling on the part of the author, a reflex in his own character. Piet eventually leaves his two young children without any deeply anguishing regrets. Children in Tarbox are mainly encumbrances to their parents. They are bundled up and transported, even when sick and feverish, so that the couples may continue their adulterous visits. It is the children who finally give an air of pathos to the network...
...westerns through the gangster stories to the more recent outpouring of sadomasochism that seems to demand a new legal definition of obscenity as cruelty. When new events put exclamation points behind the impression, and Negro Militant H. Rap Brown says that "violence is as American as cherry pie," heads nod in agreement around the world...