Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote against incumbents could reverse the trend, however, and give the state to Nixon. Ohio's big cities are heavily blue-collar, and though labor's votes are growing less predictable, they should give the edge to the Democrats. As in Illinois, many G.O.P. officials in Ohio prefer Rockefeller as a man who could cut sharply into the Democratic hold on the cities. THE SOUTH: Nixon, Naturally With 145 electoral votes at stake, Nixon should take 82, Humphrey 46, Wallace 17 (Alabama's 10 and Mississippi's 7). For Nixon: Arkansas (6), Florida (14), Kentucky...
...writers who prefer rationality to revolution are by no means traditionally conservative. In the Sunday New York Times Magazine last month, Benjamin DeMott, chairman of the English department at Amherst, explored the casually violent language of the revolutionary-minded. Among his specimens...
...course, there are no seats. Instead, spectators can perch on random, wooden-towered scaffoldings with platforms, unless they prefer to sit on the floor or lean against a wall. The cast is casually unclothed. The men are dressed, as it were, in black jockstraps. The women are braless beneath their shirts, and on some nights topless, if they are in a mood to improvise. The cast begins speaking in tongues, but English is the least of them. The program says that the play is "somewhat like Euripides' The Bacchae," but no one is likely to recognize it. Anyway, thought...
Unqualified Confidence. Only the Swiss franc, which is 100% backed by gold, shares with today's Deutsche mark the unqualified confidence of international businessmen, financiers and speculators. Because investors now prefer bonds floated in German marks to those denominated in U.S. dollars, most mark issues are selling above par, while dollar bonds go at a discount in Europe. During the March gold crisis, there was such a rush to change other money into marks that foreign accounts in West German banks swelled by a net $285 million in a single week...
...than 1% of the company's stock, has made it a prime target for takeover. When Manhattan-based Loew's Theaters Inc. undertook to win control of the company with a tender offer to shareholders last month, Commercial Credit's board decided that it would much prefer a partner of its own choosing. Last week it moved to sidestep Loew's by agreeing to merge with Minneapolis' computer-making Control Data Corp...