Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Depressed. On his birthday McGovern had a party at Sylvan Lake Lodge, dining on barbecued buffalo with staff members and old friends from his boyhood home of Mitchell, S. Dak. Mitchell High School's summer baking class prepared an enormous birthday cake in the shape of the White House. Bob Verschoor, McGovern's finance chairman for each of his congressional campaigns, presented the candidate with 50 $50 bills-his harvest from a $50 bet he placed with Las Vegas Odds-maker Jimmy the Greek when the odds against McGovern's getting the Democratic nomination were reckoned...
...will be eligible to vote for the first time, partly because of the new 18-year-old voting age. The drive will be helped by a 1970 congressional act that outlaws residency requirements longer than 30 days in presidential elections. Those two legal changes mean, says Dutton, that "the shape of the ballpark has changed; past patterns are no longer valid." A study by Student Vote, a nonpartisan group trying to mobilize young voters, claims that if only half of the 25 million vote and just 60% of them choose McGovern, this would swing to McGovern six states (Tennessee, Alaska...
...release of all American prisoners in return for a U.S. withdrawal within four months, and an end of acts of war by the U.S. in Indochina. One glimmer of movement was a remark by Xuan Thuy. He suggested that while the Communists still wanted to oust Thieu, the shape of Saigon's political future might be left-as the U.S. has proposed-to later negotiations between the two Viet Nams. Then, at week's end, Le Due Tho, a North Vietnamese Politburo member who has had secret talks with Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger, returned to Paris and indicated...
...could not be called political ploys. The exports to Moscow and Peking are a natural and widely welcomed outgrowth of presidential summitry. As Nixon relaxed last week in San Clemente, swimming and toning up his suntan, he demonstrated once again the tremendous power of an incumbent President to shape events and influence opinion. That simple circumstance remains perhaps the most important fact of life for the presiden tial candidate emerging this week from Miami...
...even though he was not part of the majority-a significant departure from tradition. Less significant but rather symbolic was the controversy over the court's bench. When Burger suggested redesigning it so that the Justices could see and hear one another better, he originally considered a V shape with himself at the apex. Other Justices resisted. The bench was ultimately bent in two places so that it now resembles a half hexagon...