Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harris Poll comparing him with Nixon in a race against Johnson and Alabama's George Wallace. In a Nixon-Johnson-Wallace race, Harris showed Nixon 39%, Johnson 39%, Wallace 12%. Substituting Rockefeller for Nixon, the result was Rockefeller 41%, Johnson 34%, Wallace 14%. As if he had already seen the poll, Rocky went out last week to buy a rackful of new suits-the first he has bought since the 1964 campaign...
...some panicky, some merely prudent-had become convinced that the U.S. and its partners could not much longer maintain the $35 price. With a balance of payments deficit of $3.6 billion last year and a war in Viet Nam that is costing some $30 billion annually, the U.S. has seen its gold reserves shrink by 50% from a postwar peak of $24.6 billion. Now, believed the speculators, the U.S. was nearing the end of its gold tether. If the U.S. could no longer sell gold to all takers at $35 an ounce and the price were allowed to rise...
...Rangers at times still have their sloppy moments. Six times this season, they have suffered the indignity of being scored upon while they were at full strength and the other team had a man in the penalty box. But to long-suffering Madison Square Garden fans, who have not seen their heroes reach the Stanley Cup finals since 1950, the Rangers' amazing transformation is truly the miracle of 33rd Street...
During last July's rioting in Hong Kong, a Chinese newsman was jailed for two years by the British. The Chinese retaliated by not letting Grey out of his house. Since then, he has not been seen. For a while, he was allowed to play chess over the phone with a friend in Peking, but then the phone was cut off. Foreign diplomats try to peer through the gate in the high wall surrounding his house but to no avail...
This gradual shift of Wisconsin voters to the Democratic ranks may be seen in the composition of the two state bodies, the Senate and the Assembly. The 100-man lower house had one to six Democrats during the '20's. FDR swept in an all-time high of 50 in 1932, and there were 11 to 26 in the '40's and 24 to 55 in the '50's. Today Democrats hold 47 Assembly seats...