Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final returns seemed headed for a virtual tie in the popular vote, the rival surveys could rightly claim that they had come well within their acceptable error of 4%. Harris had Humphrey on the button, Nixon three points low. Gallup was one point low on Nixon and three on Humphrey. Both correctly forecast the Wallace vote. In the end, Gallup and Harris turned out to be reasonably accurate and had obviously restored some confidence in polls...
...Montana's Tim Babcock, after a third term, were dropped by the only unifying issue of the gubernatorial contest?taxes. Chafee had endorsed a state income-tax increase from a maximum of 5% to 8% in order to bring in $35 million in much-needed revenues. His Democratic rival, Superior Court Justice Frank Licht, 52, countered with a proposed investment tax, and that turned the trick. Babcock opted for a sales tax with no exemption for ranch machinery. "Pay More? What For?" was the slogan that Montana's tough, three-term attorney general, Forrest H. Anderson, 55, used to dump...
Even Thieu's political opponents rallied to his side. "For one year you have asked me to give the President full support," snapped Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, Thieu's most powerful rival, to a U.S. diplomat. "Now I'm going to give the President full support...
...fight each other. In an effort to avoid martial law, the government forged a new weapon: the Workers' Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams, which were made up of elite industrial workers backed up by army "instructors." The teams were finally able to force the rival Red Guard factions into "threeway alliances" and to put them under the firm control of 29 municipal, provincial and regional revolutionary committees. The subdued Guards were then shipped in wholesale lots to distant rural areas to live and labor while they learned to "serve the people...
...roots of the dilemma at Harvard go back to the week following the King assassination. A Harvard service at Memorial Chapel attracted 1200 mourners, less than a dozen of them black. Other black students, numbering nearly 100, gathered on the steps of the chapel to hold a rival memorial service. During the course of that informal ceremoney, Jeff Howard, '69, reduced the issue to its basic...