Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...logical extension of this comparison was that the protesters in Flamingo Park were also McGovernites. So it was that the trouble on the streets fit perfectly into the scheme, complimenting the written script which timed every demonstration, every burst of applause, every "spontaneous" resolution from the floor inside Convention Hall. The delegates made it inside with a minimum of obstruction, the cameras were focused on the President as he again accepted the nomination of his party, and outside, as the media would dutifully report afterwards, police were sweeping 1200 unruly demonstrators of the radical left into Miami's jails...
...play up what he said originally. McGovern, for example, has backed away from his proposal to give every American $1,000 as part of a program to redistribute income, but Republicans intend to remind middle-class voters how heavily they would have been taxed under that abandoned scheme. In case any campaign workers are unaware of the McGovern record, they will be able to consult a handy reference guide covering the Democratic nominee's positions on everything from amnesty to women. Says a researcher for the Republican National Committee: "I can't imagine how he could survive...
...into hell. But Author Shrake, who has kept his distance from John Lee throughout most of the book, ends by indulging in a little unnecessary hero worship. After Nov. 22, the story shifts to Acapulco, where John Lee and his girl get mixed up in a gunrunning, dope-smuggling scheme that is crazily uncoordinated with the Texas part of the book. The nightmare dwindles down to a good-old boy's yarn that got out of hand, and a novel that first threatens to explode fizzles out like a firecracker tossed into a puddle.-Jay Cocks
Arnold is convinced that his scheme is entirely feasible. As a demonstration, he reports in Science, he recently set up two detectors near Argonne's 12 billion-electron-volt proton synchrotron. Then he periodically inserted a small block of brass in the path of a beam of particles from the accelerator. The effect was predictable: whenever the metal was in the way, it slightly weakened but did not block the flow of muons to the detectors 160 yds. away. Arnold had in effect devised a simple Morse telegraph system. By appropriately timing the intervals during which the metal...
...other problems with it, partly because he has confused the areas of authority. Gordon Weil, 35, is an abrasive Ph.D. Who joined two years ago as press secretary. He undertook to investigate the Eagleton rumors and he was the staff man principally responsible for the poorly worked-out welfare scheme that McGovern was forced to abandon during the primary campaign. After McGovern persuaded Larry O'Brien to sign on as national campaign director, Rival Gary Hart started putting out reports that O'Brien's role was really rather inconsequential. McGovern was outraged -as was O'Brien...