Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More for Education. With so much at stake, the campaign was bitter, and some violence even broke out briefly last month when gangs of rock-throwing Negro toughs disrupted several United Bahamian rallies. But in the end, Pindling's record was the big issue, and voters had to agree that the chunky, soft-spoken moderate was running the country pretty well. Despite fears that Pindling would stir up racial tensions and frighten business away, the islands have remained calm, and both investment and tourism are on the in crease. The islands' three casinos are packed every night...
Shades of the gold rush. In Virginia City, Nev., prospectors jammed the land office to stake out claims near the old Comstock Lode. New find? No. Old sharpie. Word was out that Mystery Zillionaire Howard Hughes, 62, had just paid $225,000 for a 480-acre claim in the area, and one of Hughes's advisers speculated that perhaps $12 billion in gold remained buried in the nearby Sierra Nevada Mountains. The investment was peanuts compared with the gold mines Hughes has already picked up. In 15 months he has spent $125 million in the state, last month closed...
...wants to transform Czechoslovak society within the wide bounds of social ism, he is compared to the 15th century Czechoslovak Theologian Jan Hus, who tried to reform the Roman Catholic Church from within but saw his followers break away and form their own movement. Hus was burned at the stake. Dubček does not expect any such fate-but he is feeling plenty of heat because of the course on which he has launched Czechoslovakia...
...Like a stake driven into the ground by the repeated blows of a sledgehammer, Harold Wilson's reputation has sunk lower and lower with each passing month. In the 13 by-elections since the country as a whole went to the polls in 1966, the Prime Minister's Labor Party had lost six of its constituencies and seen the majority in its three others cut sharply. Last week, in the first by-elections since the introduction of the government's stringent new budget, the sledgehammer fell on Labor with such force that it all but buried what...
...this shifting ground, Lyndon Johnson and Eugene McCarthy meet next week in what was to have been a clear two-man duel. Aside from contending for blocks of the state's 59 convention votes, each candidate has a large psychological stake in the primary. McCarthy's is to prove that New Hampshire was only the beginning for him, Johnson's to show that New Hampshire was an aberration. But Robert Kennedy, who is not on the ballot, and has not campaigned there, may become a decisive enough factor by means of write-in votes to make...