Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenedy is playing the role of the statesman. He never mentions his opponent's name, nor does he discuss the Sherman Adams case. The Senator sticks to a discussion of what he has done in the past and what he plans to do in the future regarding state issues. He talks about civil rights, labor benefits, and protection of Massachusetts industry...
According to Cherington, "Rockefeller might squeak past Harriman," but Freidel and Schlesinger gave the incumbent Governor an edge. All agreed that Rockefeller has gained considerable strength during the campaign and that a victory would make him a good possibility for the Republican Presidential nomination...
...questionnaires would be designed to help the Admissions Office make roommate choices less haphazard than they have been in the past," Nancy B. Rash '62, president of the committee, explained...
...historic terms are overpriced (18 times earnings for the industrials), many Wall Streeters are using a method to evaluate them which simply disregards the present. Said Edmund W. Tabell, top market analyst for Walston & Co.: "What an investor must do is take an average of earnings over the past five years [$32 for the industrials], measure it against projected 1959 earnings [now being quoted at a record $40], and come up with something in between. What happens? By overlooking 1958 earnings, you are not really paying 18 times earnings at today's prices, but only 15 times earnings, which...
...have made no secret of the fact that in the past the U.S. has been inclined to feel that the troops [on Quemoy and Matsu] were excessive for the needs of the situation," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in press conference last week. "But the Republic of China holds its views, and, after all, it is its territory that is primarily involved." Tacking back to the rhumb-line course of policy in the teeth of the continuing foreign policy storm at home* and the uncertain cease-fire calm in the Formosa Strait, Dulles criticized the "exaggerated" importance...