Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kirwan, 79, longtime chairman of the Democratic House Campaign Committee, was less sanguine. "We've got a job on our hands this year," he warned. "Barry Goldwater isn't running. You'll need courage. So you had better say your catechism and get it in good shape...
Most professional guidebook writers still shape their books for the first-time tourists. But millions of Americans are now second, third and fourth-time tourists, and they are looking for new and exciting things to do. The guides will have to take account of this new reality or else risk losing an important part of their following. Many travelers already rely for their information on journalism, on the generally current calendars of events handed out by government tourist offices-and, above all, on a mass of excellent literary travel books, whose aim is not information but inspiration, not sightseeing...
Dubious Honor. From one of the hemisphere's newest countries, Selassie was scheduled to proceed to one of its oldest-Haiti. There, conditions are so bleak under Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier that the country is hardly in better shape than when it won independence from France in 1804. Determined to give Selassie a proper reception, the government scraped deep into its depleted treasury for $100,000, used it to plant flagpoles along the two-mile length of road from the airport to the capital of Port-au-Prince, place festive flags all over the city...
Coach Cooney Welland expressed disappointment at the Crimson's poor showing so far this year. "We've already passed the half-way mark and things look pretty bad. The bottom of the lineup is just going to have to shape up or we're going to have a lot of trouble in our Ivy League matches," he said...
...Crimson may have enough trouble getting itself in shape, disregarding Penn's always strong teams. Harvard is floundering in the trough of a two-game losing streak. The bottom half of the line-up is playing poorly, even though sophomore Jim Torhorst, who should be playing four or five, is in the seventh position...