Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Okio: A magic name and a potent G.O.P. organization are 47-year-old Robert A. Taft Jr.'s trump cards, but Goldwater's name on top of the ticket is a deuce. Even so, it would probably take a 500,000-vote Johnson win to sweep crusty Incumbent Stephen M. Young, 75, into a second term. Leaning strongly to Taft...
Utah: Democrat Frank E. Moss, 53, squeaked into the Senate with 38.7% of the vote in 1958 because two Republican opponents split the vote against him. This year he faces only one Republican, former Brigham Young University President Ernest L. Wilkinson, 65, whose conservatism packs potent appeal. The race is tight, but Lyndon will probably carry Moss back for a second term...
...sluggish freshman football team found a potent offensive combination in the fourth quarter and rolled over the Tufts yearlings 25-0 in Somerville yesterday...
...Johnson in Ohio -in one county, a Republican official estimates it at 20%-is surprising. But the fact that many of these same people plan to split their ballots and vote for Republican Robert Taft Jr. for the U.S. Senate is not. The Taft name obviously packs a potent political punch in the state that sent Bob Jr.'s grandfather, William Howard Taft, to the presidency and established his father in the Senate as the nation's "Mr. Republican." But beyond that, "young" Bob, in his cool, deliberate manner, has carefully cultivated a reputation...
...Busy to Listen. With such earned authority, Boyer has become a potent force on TV and film sets. He makes directors flinch. He watches rushes each day. If he does not like a scene, it is shot again. He gives stage directions, changes scripts, talks rapidly and is too busy to listen. When he happens to own the company that is doing the shooting, all this is his privilege; but he acts the same way when he is merely an employee. In Hold Back the Dawn, he played a European refugee trying to get into the U.S. from Mexico...