Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Republican observers doubt that Rockefeller can duplicate Dewey's surprise victory, which was achieved mostly by a trouncing that Dewey gave Stassen in a nationwide radio debate. Lodge need not take any such risk as a debate. And his absence from Oregon apparently works to his advantage in other ways. Explains a top Oregon Republican: "There's the matter of overexposure. That's not something that either Rockefeller or Goldwater can correct, but it's there. The glamour, the mystique, has run thin. Lodge, on the other hand, is the personification of mystique...
Surprisingly, tobacco stems yield less tar and noxious gases than the leaves. So, said Wynder and Hoffmann, there is less risk in smoking cigarettes if finely shredded stems are left in the tobacco, or if they are made from compressed sheets of homogenized tobacco dust and stems. Finally, finer cuts of the tobacco leaf itself make a less hazardous cigarette than the coarse cuts...
...nation needs to preserve safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure...
Five years ago the company took a calculated risk, becoming the first European corporation since World War II to take over an American firm. It now holds 90% of the stock of foundering Underwood, onetime leader in the U.S. business-machines field, whose ragged research and inadequate product line had pushed it into hard times. But Olivetti had hardly nursed Underwood back from a 1959 sales low of $75 million to annual sales of $117 million - and a profit last month for the first time - when other problems appeared...
...letter, calling itself the 320 Club, claims to be a no-risk investment because the buyer reclaims his original investment of $20 by selling two letters...