Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only in New York, where Democrats have not even found a candidate to face popular Nelson Rockefeller. Good G.O.P. possibilities: Ohio and Pennsylvania. Tossups: Michigan and Nixon's own California. But Nixon's prediction, however sanguine, threw sudden light on an interesting fact: the Democrats are not shoo-ins in the five states with the biggest urban vote...
...seemed an outright ringer-an obvious hedge against another talented foreigner's running off with the prize. Only 24, he was already far more seasoned in the concert hall than most of the contest's applicants. But, as it turned out, the home-town hero was no shoo...
...important areas of Africa. In steaming Uganda, a black former herdboy was picked to steer the divided little land toward independence Oct. 9. In the sprawling Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, a white, burly former locomotive engineer won another chance to pull his disintegrating country together. The shoo-in victors...
...only unwrapped presents of the evening are Orson Bean and Phyllis Newman. Fighting hotel-room eviction by wearing nothing but a towel (they can't throw her out nude), Comedienne Newman has one of the two numbers that threaten to wake up the show, I Was a Shoo-in, a hilariously mimed saga of how she missed being Miss America. Comic Bean, a twitchy bundle of broken watchsprings, has the other: he begs her to seduce him by putting on some clothes...
...Island and make its runways dangerous for aircraft. Naval experts on bird migration suspect that gooney birds navigate to their breeding island by following the earth's magnetic field. If the secrets of the gooneys' system can be uncovered by radio, the Navy may be able to shoo the birds magnetically away from Midway...