Word: seek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Chuck Percy, now 44, announced last summer that he would seek the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois, it was a safe bet that he would go after it furiously. He did. Hitting the campaign trail in a bus dubbed the "Chuckwagon," which was chuck-full with Percy, his wife and five kids and an eight-piece band, he rolled into every corner of the state, showed up at no less than 43 county fairs to pump acres of hands, spent 18-hour days plugging his candidacy...
...have no political ambitions, none whatsoever." But before long, his Mercury colleagues noticed that he was devoting most of his time to being a public figure, suspected he might have the political bug. So it hardly came as a surprise last week when Glenn announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate from his home state of Ohio...
...Denounced by the U.N. for its white-supremacy policies, and boycotted by almost every other African nation, the country is perpetually haunted by the threat of an internal racial explosion. Yet a surprising number of white settlers are ignoring the swart gevaar (as Afrikaners call the "black danger") to seek a new life in the controversial land. For three years, more whites have moved to South Africa than have left, and in 1963 net immigration reached an estimated 26,000-the highest total in the 15-year reign of the pro-apartheid Nationalist regime...
Crisis of Virginity. "Nice girls don't" is undoubtedly still the majority view, but definitely weakening, as is "No nice boy will respect you if you go to bed with him." A generation ago, college boys strayed off campus to seek out professionals; today they are generally looked down on if they can't succeed with a coed...
Former Gov. John A. Volpe announced yesterday that he will seek to regain the office he lost to Gov. Endicott Peabody by a narrow margin...