Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still applied: a plethora of candidates, no established party tickets, and moiling confusion in both parties over the issues. Despite the pollsters' fatiloquent accuracy in past years, they have stumbled often in the past six months. Almost all, for example, have consistently underestimated Eugene McCarthy's considerable strength. Harris and Gallup have frequently differed in their preference surveys, though never so widely as in the preconvention week...
Without the universal human urge for freedom, the South Vietnamese would not still be fighting - regardless of all U.S. military help. After peace comes to Viet Nam, the U.S. must count on this same urge to bring about new political strength among the South Vietnamese and the desire to keep their country independent. The concept of freedom is vastly different in Asia, of course, from that of a highly sophisticated and Westernized country like Czechoslovakia. But freedom is contagious when it is allowed to survive at all - and that is both the U.S.'s hope and the Russians...
...Collins Report, though supposedly a private study motivated purely by a desire to discover what sort of a man would add the most strength to a Nixon ticket, reached the some conclusions that Volpe has been trumpeting for some months now. Volpe's earlier attempts to convince Nixon of his own vote-getting value have been futile and it expected that the Collins study, despite its scientific appearance and statistical documentations, will fail also to impress Nixon and his king-makers...
...Strength by Contact. Tactile liturgy is taking hold in several other areas of the U.S. Boston's Arlington Street Unitarian Church held a service this spring in which members of a local theater workshop, eyes closed and feigning blindness, moved through the pews to be helped along by parishioners' hands. A seminarian at the Chicago Theological Seminary, Kent Schneider, recently designed a service for his own wedding that turned into a chain of personal contact. After kissing each other, both bride and bridegroom kissed another member of the wedding party on the cheek, and the cycle was continued...
Nonetheless, as Garrison quite properly points out, until the trial takes place the only one who knows the strength of his case is Jim Garrison himself. His friends in New Orleans like to remember that he has won many a tough one before. He cleaned out the well-entrenched B-girls on Bourbon Street and also took on eight local judges, winning the right to criticize them in the U.S. Supreme Court. On the other side, local enemies, of whom he has his share, recall that he was discharged from the Army for mental reasons and that...