Word: romneys
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...most common driver's fault in auto mishaps is speed. High horsepower is not necessarily dangerous; it can be a lifesaver in passing another car. But there is little reason for anybody to top 80 m.p.h. Asks George Romney, who has become particularly safety conscious since leaving the American Motors presidency to become Governor of Michigan: "Has the auto industry not neglected safety for style and overemphasized speed and power? It makes drivers feel that they are at Daytona Beach and not on highways." G.M. markets a limited-production Chevelle Z-16 that revs up to 160 m.p.h.; Ford...
Early in March, backers at the University of Michigan's branch in Flint called to urge Riegle to oppose freshman Democratic Representative John Mackie. Subsequent conferences with Richard M. Nixon and with Michigan's Governor George Romney, he stated, convinced him that his chances for election were promising...
...practicable, the Romney-Laird idea needs the advance blessing of all major candidates for the presidential nomination. They would consequently be committed to the useful notion that the party is bigger than the man, which in itself could help damp down some of the G.O.P.'s intraparty differences. More important for the party's immediate prospects, Romney has already told Laird he would make that commitment. Though condemned by many party regulars as a loner and an opportunist who has used the G.O.P. but has no true allegiance to it, Romney has thus indicated his willingness to contend...
...Griffin wins, said Laird, "there's no doubt in my mind that Romney will be our 1968 nominee...
...authorship of the plan portends harmony. Its sponsors are Michigan's Governor George Romney, a probable candidate for the presidential nomination, and Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird who as platform-committee chairman in 1964 tried to bring everybody together but drew fire from both sides. They propose that the several hundred participants in the pre-convention-most of them party leaders who would also be delegates to the regular convention the next year-first choose a drafting committee and then act on the committee's platform...