Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that Barry Goldwater would be a disaster to the G.O.P. if nominated, and to the U.S. if elected. Those closest to him say that the only thing that would get him back to the U.S. before the July 13 San Francisco convention would be an effort to stop Goldwater...
Lodge's backers hope for a big Oregon win, are moving to stop Goldwater by backing Rockefeller in the June 2 winner-take-all primary in California, where Lodge is not on the ballot, write-ins are not allowed, and 86 delegates are at stake...
...each new state enjoys one vote in the U.N. General Assembly-as do all the major powers save the Soviet Union, which wheedled three votes for itself at the San Francisco Conference in 1945. U.N. officials see no way of stopping this proliferation, and in a stop-gap move to accommodate it, the General Assembly Hall has just been redone to seat 126 national delegations, 14 more than present membership. After that, presumably, there will be standing room only...
...told Nehru and a crowd of 100,000 Indians that friendship "on the basis of parity" can only be "mutually beneficial." Next week King Mahendra plans to make a state visit to West Germany, which is discussing several possible aid projects for Nepal; on his way home, he will stop off in Pakistan for talks with President Ayub Khan. Mahendra, who calls his policy one of strict nonalignment, claims that his Foreign Minister Tulsi Giri actually invented the word. Be that as it may, few other nations have made it pay such handsome royalties...
Stoppeurs were panicked recently by a rumor that France had outlawed le stop. It turned out that only persons under 18 were forbidden to hitchhike, and the situation soon returned to normal. Yet for single girls who do not happen to be judo champions, a women's magazine darkly warns that white slavers cruise the roads for recruits. Military uniforms and Boy Scout getups are a help for hitchhikers, and two Canadians in Nice recently made it in record time to southern Spain by dressing in cassocks...