Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still outruns Johnson and Kennedy in preference polls, though his margin has been decreasing. He has the squarejawed, silver-fringed good looks for the job, an unbroken string of victories and an unblemished personal life. He can enrapture a sympathetic audience, as he did in the conservative mountain states recently, by charging that "the Great Society has grown into a tax-guzzling dinosaur"-an echo from the days when he and American Motors' little Rambler were doing battle with Detroit's "gas-guzzling dinosaurs." Despite the Mormon Church's relegation of Negroes to second-class status, Romney...
Advanced work on electric cars still centers around cheaper, more powerful batteries. General Motors, for example, is continuing work on high-capacity silver-zinc batteries, though they are still inordinately expensive. Ford has designed a sodium-sulphur battery that could drive a Falcon-sized car up to 130 miles at 50 m.p.h. Scientists agree that a production car using a version of either battery is still five to ten years...
...Never. Accompanied by his wife Muriel, more than 50 reporters, staffers and Secret Service men and an argosy of silver bowls, spoons and forks to bestow on his hosts, Humphrey deplaned first at Geneva. From Kennedy Round negotiators he heard glum reports that the talks had reached an impasse over Washington's reluctance to lower tariffs on imported chemicals and European resistance to lowering duties on American farm products. Humphrey warned that if agreement was not reached by the deadline at month's end, the U.S. Congress-now in an increasingly protectionist mood-was not likely to renew...
Died. Victor A. Johnston, 66, longtime Republican senatorial campaign director, known as "the silver fox of Capitol Hill" because of his handsome white mane and his sharp nose for turning up election funds, who in 18 years raised uncounted millions to help such candidates as Harold E. Stassen, Joseph McCarthy, Robert A. Taft, and Barry Goldwater, and counted as one of his toughest jobs finding financial support last year for Oregon's Mark Hatfield, whose dovelike stand on Viet Nam soured many powerful G.O.P. moneymen; of a heart attack; in Miami...
...become known as a swinger, and good graduate students want to work for you-then you have to keep them challenged." Once a school has the manpower and equipment, the next grant comes easier. "The rich are getting richer and the poor are going nowhere," says Berkeley's Silver...