Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats and 18 by Republicans. And, barring an unexpected tide, the 64-to-36 Democratic majority of the 87th Congress is likely to stay much the same in the 88th. Such is the unpredictability of voters that elections often bring startling surprises, with some incumbents who had seemed safe losing after all, and some who had seemed to be in danger actually winning by huge margins. But as of last week, without benefit of hindsight, the line-up looked like this...
...SAFE DEMOCRATIC SEATS...
...SAFE REPUBLICAN SEATS...
...FAIL-SAFE (286 pp.)-Eugene Bardick & Harvey Wheeler-McGraw-Hill...
Emotional Neuters. Burdick, who swung wildly, and sometimes below the belt, at American diplomats in his book The Ugly American, swings just as hard at scientists advising the Pentagon. Walter Groteschele, Fail-Safe's villain, is a caricature of a scientist, who advocates preventive war in scholarly treatises and exults in private: "Knowing you have to die, imagine how fantastic it would be to have the power to take everyone else with you. The untold billions of them. They are murderees: born to be murdered and don't know it. And the person with his finger...