Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were cries from each side that the other had tried to "pack" the convention. One Goldwater partisan said yesterday, "There's no question that they [the pro-Rockefeller members of the Harvard Young Republican Club] signed up about 100 people for the fairly specific purpose of the convention...
Sweat became noticeable on the Harvard bench during the two-mile, as Walt Hewlett started slow and finished slower. The predicted six points for the Crimson vanished into none when Yale's Jeff Sidney, whom Hewiett defeated last week, led a pack of alien runners across the tape ahead of the Crimson sophomore...
...little like asking a two-pack-a-day man to give up smoking. In Argentina, beef belt of the hemisphere, the country's 30 biggest packinghouses urged President Arturo Illia to institute meat rationing. Otherwise, they warned, exports will drop, many meat packers will close, and 60,000 workers will be out of work. Ironically, the trouble is that 1963 was a banner year for Argentine beef exports; slaughterhouses worked overtime, and farmers thinned out their herds. Now they are trying to build up their cattle stocks again, and in a land where 21 million people eat an average...
...such noises shattered the sleep of the pioneers a century or more ago. But the tire screech of a hard-braked auto mobile is probably no more disturbing than the howl of a timber wolf rallying the pack. And no American today need lie awake worrying whether the soft fluting of a small owl is really the signal that a band of Indians is closing in for a scalping spree...
Many businessmen and bankers, who consider Martin the very symbol of sound money, will lobby against attempts to rob him of authority or to pack the board. But Patman senses a widespread feeling that the whole Federal Reserve needs an overhaul, and he is confident of bucking through at least a few of his proposals. Much will depend upon whether his fellow Texan in the White House decides to press hard for the changes. Lyndon Johnson shares Patman's Populist dislike of tight credit, and is not as close to Bill Martin as John Kennedy...