Word: opening
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...fluky: a Republican working for Bush conceded that some 40% of those who picked Bush in the early days thought they were voting to bring back the Old Man, not Junior. But that was also the summer when the giants started to fall and the party cracked wide open: Jack Kemp and Colin Powell weren't in the game, Newt Gingrich was nearly toppled in a coup attempt in the House, and the other candidates seemed to have been running since the dawn of time without getting anywhere. "There was this vacuum," says a Republican strategist, "and it became like...
...anything. Now, there are only two reasons for the Fed to raise rates at its June 29 meeting ?- to loosen up labor markets or simply to bare its teeth ?- and neither seems compelling enough for Alan & the Gang to act before the next meeting, in August. The corral is open again. Do the bulls remember...
...Bill Tilden wins the last of his seven U.S. Open tennis championships
...execution in Vallegrande at the age of 39 only enhanced Guevara's mythical stature. That Christ-like figure laid out on a bed of death with his uncanny eyes almost about to open; those fearless last words ("Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man") that somebody invented or reported; the anonymous burial and the hacked-off hands, as if his killers feared him more after he was dead than when he had been alive: all of it is scalded into the mind and memory of those defiant times. He would resurrect, young people shouted in the late...
BORN May 22, 1930, in Woodmere, N.Y. 1951 Enlists in the Navy 1964 Campaigns for Barry Goldwater 1972 Moves to San Francisco with lover Scott Smith. They open a camera shop in the Castro, the emerging gay enclave 1973 Makes first run for city board of supervisors 1977 Wins seat, becoming the first openly gay elected official of any large city ASSASSINATED Nov. 27, 1978, by conservative former board member Dan White, whose light sentence sparks riots