Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talked, he made clear his special role in the 1960 campaign: of all the leading candidates and contenders, he is the only one unashamedly setting himself out in the fine old-fashioned role of the poor boy* who values above mother's milk the purest, hundred-proof liberalism, bottled 25 years ago in the bond of the New Deal. Says he: "Liberals are waiting for a leader-one who stands out from the rest. My job is to go to the convention keeping my flame alive...
...Changed Situation. Such liberal pyrotechnics brought the crowd to its feet in a roar of applause. But will it win votes? Ed Viehman, Minnesota's capable, cocky new Republican state chairman, says no emphatically. As proof, he reels off the achievements of the resurgent Republican Party in Humphrey's own front yard: the G.O.P. now controls the Minnesota state senate, Republican P. Kenneth Peterson is mayor of Minneapolis, D.F.L. strength has gradually drained away for the past year, Humphrey's own plurality was cut 81,119 votes in 1954. Governor Orville Freeman is under steady Republican drumfire...
...real as Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion. Last week Soldier-Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, Israel's Chief of Operations in the Palestine war of 1948 and the general who chased the Egyptians out of the Negev by a strategic plan derived from the Old Testament, offered proof that the celebrated ruin at Megiddo was not built by King Solomon, as had been supposed. Instead it was built by the "wicked" King Ahab...
...TIME'S Dec. 28 picture and story on the late Roger Touhy offer dramatic proof of the timeless axiom: "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword...
...hottest politico-economic arguments in the U.S. involves the question: Is the U.S. growing fast enough? Last week the Federal Reserve Board produced factual proof that the industrial side of the U.S. economy is growing much faster than the Federal Reserve - and most economists - had charted. The faster pace was revealed when the Fed updated its industrial-production index for the first time since 1953; output has been rising at a rate of 4.1% a year from 1947 to date, v. 3.7% previously calculated. As a result, the revised index hit a peak of 166 (1947-49 equals 100) last...