Word: prove
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...happen to like LIFE Magazine," said former Vice President Richard Nixon. "The fact that they're the most popular picture magazine in the country must prove that they're doing something right." Then, making his first appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court, Manhattan Lawyer Nixon spent the next hour politely attacking LIFE for invasion of privacy in a case that may produce one of the Supreme Court's major 1966 decisions...
More interesting than this success story is the necessarily more speculative history of what has been going in Romney's mind. Anyone who wants to prove that he is an unvarnished Chicago Tribune sort of Republican can go back to his AMA speeches and find the usual derisive references to Walter Reuther, creeping socialism, etc. But people's minds--even Midwestern businessmen's minds--can change. Romney apparently had an idea sometime in the late '50s that Michigan could be saved from the twin evils of big labor (the Democratic Party) and big business (the Republican Party) by a knight...
...President. He was saved from making the race in 1964 by a series of political setbacks in Michigan the preceding year: his state constitution was almost defeated, his tax program killed by a Republican legislature, and he was running behind ex-Governor Swainson in the polls. Now he must prove himself to conservative Republicans, who dislike the non-partisan tone of his earlier efforts and his refusal to support Barry Goldwater in 1964. He will almost certainly win reelection. The three Democrats who might have threatened Romney--Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh. Attorney General Frank Kelley, and Congressman John Mackie...
...Life," says one of Vladimir Nabokov's characters, "makes a constant attempt to prove it is real." Russian-born Author Nabokov prefers to believe it is not. For him, real life ended with a bang in the 1917 Revolution. Ever since then he has quietly taken refuge in an elegant, ironic domain of private jokes and personal fantasies. Lolita made him famous because the private joke was also a public one that millions found appalling or appealing. His other works (The Eye, Pale Fire, Pnin, etc.) have been more complex fantasies. One of them is this prophetic, satirical play...
...about 30 people responded to her offer, but she was dissappointed in the outcome of this experiment. "I wanted to make the drug available to people who had never taken it, but those who came had used it too many times before." She made the offer, she says, to "prove a point," that one should be open about the use of psychedelic drugs. The problem, she claims, is that "people are too paranoid...