Word: spoilers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spoiler. Ford's new series, called the Torino, is an effort to cash in on Detroit's growing emphasis on sporty styling and intermediate size. Marketed with the Fairlane line, the Torino features the elongated hood and abbreviated rear end that has caught on in the specialty cars; it comes in hardtop, sedan and station wagon, as well as a racier "GT" model equipped with a 210-h.p. V-8 (engines with up to 390 h.p. are optional). The standard Fair-lanes have also been streamlined, their bodies stretched out by a full...
...Spoiler. Less sophisticated folk, North and South, are not so likely to be concerned about the effectiveness of a protest vote for Wallace. He has every hope of carrying Alabama and Mississippi. He could take Louisiana and Georgia as well, and might make a strong showing in South Carolina. All five of these states went Republican in 1964, and might be expected to do so again in normal circumstances...
...which Southern voting patterns will be affected by the region's fast-changing social, economic and political structure. In both parties there have been some encouraging signs of moderation and modernization, but the turmoil that Wallace is capable of fomenting could destroy this progress. The self-described "spoiler" could also delay the Southern Negro's entry into mainstream politics. By 1968, Negro voter registration in the eleven states of the old Confederacy may exceed 3,250,000, more than double the 1960 figure. Though the actual impact of this potential vote remains to be seen, a third-party...
...supreme legislative penalty-exclusion.* Drastic as the action was, a majority of the House was determined to make Powell's punishment fit his offenses -and they were numerous. Since he was first elected in 1944, Powell has cheerfully collected enemies with his arrogance, his blatant junketing and his spoiler's role in upsetting arduously achieved compromises. To this woeful record, two investigatory panels in recent months added evidence of payroll irregularities and misappropriation of congressional travel funds. To top it all off, he was unable to enter his home state, thanks to jail sentences imposed by New York...
...control. Last week Arfons was at Bonneville to regain the record he lost last year when Craig Breedlove clocked 600 m.p.h. in his own jet car, Spirit of America. Art was confident that he had licked Green Monster's handling problems by adding a hydraulically operated "spoiler," or fin, designed to counteract the torque overload that had caused the blowouts...