Word: solidated
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He?and the elephant?had every reason to trumpet. With a record 56 million voters (48% of all voting-age Americans) casting midterm ballots, the G.O.P. scored solid gains at every level, from state assembly to U.S. Senate. It picked up some 700 seats in the state legislatures, more than erasing the 529-seat loss of two years ago. Having lost 38 House seats in the Goldwater debacle, the Republicans scored a net gain of 47, their best showing in two decades and a marked improvement over the average off-year pickup of 38 seats for "out" parties during...
Vote of Confidence. Solid victories were awarded to such veterans as Volpe (63% of the vote), Case (62%), Maine's doughty three-term G.O.P. Senator Margaret Chase Smith (59%), Delaware's Republican Senator Caleb Boggs (60%), and West Virginia's Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph (59%). Youngish up-and-comers also were rewarded with renewed votes of confidence. Vermont's Governor Philip Hoff, 42, elected in 1962 as the state's first Democratic chief executive since 1854, got a 57% majority this year; ticket-splitting Rhode Island voters re-elected Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell, 47, with...
...riflemen through the Tay Ninh jungles when, as he put it, "all hell broke loose." An ambush of 1,500 Communist soldiers opened up with automatic rifles and machine guns on the Americans-and kept on firing and firing. "For eight hours it was nothing but solid lead," said Meloy later. "Where the V.C. got all the ammunition, I've got no earthly idea." Six times the Red soldiers launched human wave charges, yelling and screaming above the crackle of bullets. Meloy's men held them off until reinforcements arrived, permitting a U.S. withdrawal under pinpoint artillery cover...
...offend the Protestants. But the main factor in Kiesinger's success was that, as a man of moderate, flexible views, he seemed to stand the best chance of forming a coalition with either the Socialists or the Free Democrats. Said he: "I hope for success in forming a solid-and I especially emphasize solid-coalition...
Even taking waste in its narrowest terms, the U.S. is not so profligate as it seems. Every U.S. citizen throws away some 41 pounds of solid waste every day: garbage, tin cans, bottles, paper. It is estimated that it costs the economy $3 billion a year to do away with all this. One Rand Corp. scientist figures that it costs more to dispose of the New York Sunday Times than it does a subscriber...