Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would add to Republican appeal in the South. But after Kennedy's surprise choice of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson as his running mate, dismayed Nixonmen shared Kennedy's feelings that the South was lost to the Republicans. That made it all the more necessary to push the foreign-policy issue, in an effort to swing votes outside the South. His own mind made up, Nixon got the unanimous ratification of Lodge (who was Eisenhower's favorite choice even during the Rockefeller boom) in a two-hour session with party leaders after the presidential nomination. "This...
...first year of the decade of the '60s, the U.S. economy has paused for breath, seems to be going nowhere in particular. Some economists are once again talking about a mature economy, worry that there are no new breakthroughs in sight to give the nation a great forward push such as the auto and electronics did. But the past shows that such worries about the future are groundless. The pace of research is such that man's next great discovery may come next month, next week-or tomorrow...
...objection to a short prayer for Francis Powers, as some have suggested, but doesn't it seem more important for us to pray for a clearer national direction and a more genuine educational system, so that technicians like Powers might learn more than simply which buttons to push? All the tears, family sentimentality and public sympathy can't wash away the ''damned spot" of Powers' only apparent motive and interest: that...
...Production Push. So far this year, the U.S. auto industry has sold 3,990,470 cars, 37% increase over 1959, but sales have dipped for the past two months below the 1959 rate. Despite the slump, automakers cranked up production on 1961 models earlier than usual, allowed a much shorter shutdown period for dealers to clean up 1960 models. Last week the industry's output was 36% higher than the week before and nearly triple the production of the same period last year. Either sales will have to pick up or production will have to be cut down...
Ready for a Push. In the judgment of market analysts, all these favorable technical factors set the stage for a market advance, but the market still needs a push from improved economic conditions to pick up momentum. With the big institutional investors (mutual funds, insurance companies) now returning to the market and the market's basic psychology improving, many Wall Streeters believe that the market is ready to respond to favorable news, take off on a sustained advance to new highs. Says Gerald S. Colby, partner of Boston's du Pont, Homsey & Co.: "The market is seeing better...