Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RELIGION. The problem has passed its peak, but, says Bobby, "it could peak again." Hard-boiled Kennedyites run a continual poll on the Catholic vote, know that Jack's confrontation by the Houston Protestant ministers (TIME, Sept. 26) helped them with Nixon-minded Northern Catholics-and know that a fall-off of interest in religion will weaken them in the same area. Bobby plans to show a film of Jack Kennedy's session with the Houston clergy in every state...
Illinois: Chicago's Cook County cradles half the state's votes, and Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine is purring at peak efficiency. Downstate, the Republican tide is at low ebb. G.O.P. Governor William Stratton, stuck with a scandal-seared administration, split the party by insisting on running for a third term. Traditionally Republican newspapers in Peoria, Moline, Pekin and Rockford have endorsed the Democratic candidate for Governor, Otto Kerner. Republicans say their polls put Nixon ahead 54-46 and Bobby Kennedy groans, "We're behind." But Democrats may yet take Illinois...
Blue Sky Estimates. The forecasts were out of line chiefly because some sales estimates were more blue sky than blue chip. The original overoptimism is long gone, replaced by a sober realization that the U.S. economy, while operating at close to a peak level, is not moving forward in line with expectations...
...helped design the street ornaments in Bruges for the marriage of Charles the Bold to Margaret of York. He rose swiftly after that, carrying on the trend to greater humanization (see color). But Hugo van der Goes was obsessed by the belief that he was damned. At the peak of his fame he withdrew to a monastery, where kindly monks played sweet music to him when his black depressions came. He died in 1482 hopelessly insane...
...eyed innocence; of a heart attack; in Terni, Italy. Breaking in as an amateur juggler before the age of ten, the Bronx-born comic sometimes broke his eloquent silence, as in his famed renditions of River, Stay 'Way from My Door and One Meat Ball, hit his Broadway peak in 1938 in The Boys from Syracuse, in 1946 made a nightclub comeback following a leg amputation for a malignant tumor...