Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ironically, Buckley's candidacy may prove the final push that persuades the indecisive Liberal Party to make Lindsay the first Republican mayoral candidate in 16 years to get their endorsement. The Conservative Party turned out 122,967 votes last year in New York City for Senatorial Candidate Henry Paolucci, is thus creeping up on the Liberals as New York City's major minority party. As the Liberals see it, their best hope for staying in front and maintaining their claim that they are the "balance of power" may be to back Lindsay, a man who might well...
...liberal attitudes. A growing number of Gentiles who marry Jews convert to Judaism-and, like most converts, tend to be stricter than their mates. In Los Angeles, for instance, two schools of instruction for converts function full time. Judaism traditionally declines to seek converts, but with a little proselytizing push, some Jewish leaders feel, conversions might eventually offset losses...
...obstinate maintaining of divisive internal antagonisms could make Europe the Balkans of the world." It was nonetheless a diplomatic tour de force-the one French response no one had anticipated. Even more, it was a reminder of how bitterly De Gaulle will resist creeping supranationalism. Resisting the Eurocrats' push for unity by delaying the farm plan will cost France and its farmers at least $1 billion between...
...preceding 15 sec. At 65 ft., radio altimeters on board switch in. Now they signal the computers, which then bring the plane down to the proper landing point on the runway. The human pilot merely controls the plane's roll and yaw. Only at touchdown does he push a button on the steering column to disengage the automatic system...
...young buyers into showrooms by passing out 100,000 paperback copies of How to Prepare for College. United Airlines uses paperback travel guides to whet tourist interest in the cities it serves. Colgate-Palmolive is giving out sports books as premiums in its shaving-cream kits, and Squibb is pushing its new artificial sweetener, Sweeta, by giving away a sugar-free cookbook with each bottle. The biggest book users are insurance companies and banks, which pass out Merriam-Webster's pocket dictionary, home medical guides and dozens of others to push salesmen into living rooms or to locate loan...