Word: nods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been organizing his effort in the last two weeks, admits that his candidate is "starting pretty far behind." Other Humphrey supporters glumly recall that the Vice-President doesn't have a winning record. In 1952 he helped Stevenson win the nomination but then watched the Vice-presidential nod turn away from him. In 1956 his open candidacy for the second spot was smothered by Kennedy and Kefauver. Four years later, he lost miserably in West Virginia. The next year he was by-passed for the Senate majority leadership. In 1964 he agonized while Lyndon B. Johnson dangled the Vice-Presidency...
...Chicago is indeed formidable.*In the 1950s, it would undoubtedly have been awarded to an enthusiast of abstract expressionism, Muriel Neuman, who picked up her first major De Kooning for $2,000 in 1950, long before most New York collectors were taking the movement seriously. More recently, the nod would have gone to Arnold Maremont, 63, president of Maremont Corp., maker of mufflers and other auto parts. The muffler man's 300-piece collection, valued at $2,000,000, shines throughout his manor house in Winnetka, at corporate headquarters, and in Maremont's Arizona hideaway...
...screaming fits," spanked her and hit her and promised to break her "like a pony," after which he would create "the wife I want" through the miracle of LSD. Grant denied all through his lawyers (he is in New York, recovering from auto-accident injuries), but Dyan got the nod from the judge, and $24,000 yearly in child support plus a $57,,000 settlement...
Some 45 new investment projects have been approved, at least in principle, and within the past four weeks, 15 foreign banks have received the nod to open branches in Djakarta. They include the Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, First National City Bank and American Express. All expect to be open for business before the end of the year and capable of financing foreign ventures on the spot...
...Louis Harris Poll showed Johnson beating or tying all the Republican prospects, whereas two months earlier he trailed them all. Most Democratic leaders believe that the G.O.P.'s strongest candidate would be Nelson Rockefeller, but that the party will not nominate him. If Nixon gets the nod, which now seems likely, they think that will be a boost for Johnson...