Word: rashness
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...Daily News, warming up its editorial columns for the long debate that leads to November. "But one thing seems at least 99% certain: that it is going to be our most exciting and fiercely fought presidential battle in decades. Excuse us a moment while we lick our chops." Early Rash. The News might well have added that much of the excitement and ferocity has been supplied by the press. Rarely in a presidential year have so many newspapers betrayed such impatient eagerness to referee the cam paign - or to influence its outcome. The Chicago Tribune declared for Barry Goldwater even...
...rash of early newspaper endorse ments may also have inflicted permanent damage to the image of a one-party press. Already in Lyndon Johnson's trophy room, for instance, are such normally Republican-sympathizing papers as the Kansas City Star, the Chicago Sun-Times, and three of the eight dailies in once Republican Vermont...
...they are usually the kind that raise a storm. Five months ago, Richardson-Merrell of New York pleaded no contest to criminal charges that it had concealed information about the harmful side effects of MER/29, an anticholesterol drug; it thereupon was hit with an $80,000 fine and a rash of suits by users of the drug. The three-year congressional investigation of the industry by the late Senator Estes Kefauver and the scandal of thalidomide caused birth defects have led Congress to give the Food and Drug Administration broader powers to police the research, manufacture and testing of drugs...
...thought that he could defeat Lyndon Johnson. He replied: "If you asked that question as of now-and I always like to answer political questions as of now-no. I don't think any Republican can, as of now ... I don't think I'd be rash enough to say I could beat Johnson in the South as of now. But come Election Day, there's going to be another horse race, I believe...
Busy with outbreaks of banditry elsewhere, the federal government let the remote coffee-growing land slip away by default. Marquetalia paid no taxes, and death awaited any police or military force rash enough to cross its borders. Last December Tiro Fijo and his men ambushed an army patrol, killing six soldiers. All told, the army credits him with 200 murders...