Word: planning
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...closest advisers have believed that any overt move for the G.O.P. presidential nomination would 1) foreclose any hope of his winning it, and 2) seriously damage any other moderate candidate's chance. During a 1966 post-election vacation at Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico, Rockefeller outlined a plan to fuse factions in the national party from the center leftward in a "consensus" that would provide "practical alternatives to the present Administration" in both policies and a candidate. The 25 Republican Governors (now 26) were to be the spearhead of the movement, and Rockefeller soon settled on Romney as its beneficiary...
While the Dorado Beach strategy did not take the mainland by storm, it was a viable working plan as long as Romney remained afloat. But premature and excessive exposure, clumsy articulation of ideas and downright ineptness, especially the "brainwashing" blooper, dissipated his early popularity. After his withdrawal, Romney volunteered that he had entered the competition before fully developing his positions...
...still felt that he could keep his hand from being forced. And while a majority-perhaps 18-of his 25 fellow Governors are generally counted as pro-Rockefeller in varying degrees, few of them are now prepared to make an official commitment. Sev eral of the Governors in fact plan to go to Miami as favorite-son nominees...
Along Abidjan's wide, tree-shaded boulevards and cloverleaf expressways, new apartment houses and office buildings are rising by the score. Later this year construction will begin on the capital's biggest single project yet, part of Houphouët's plan to make Abidjan and the surrounding countryside the latest In place for the international set. Designed by Los Angeles Architect William Pereira (TIME cover, Sept. 6, 1963), it is a 10,000-acre, $300 million resort complex that will have 15 hotels, a 27-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones, four shopping centers...
...year have begun moving their own cassette equipment into the U.S. market. By year's end, more than 1,000 titles will be available on cassettes in the U.S., priced mostly at $5.95 (v. an average of $6.95 for cartridges). And next year both Ford and General Motors plan to introduce cassette players as optional equipment in their new cars...