Word: strengthing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they had imagined." What evidence is there that they had imagined violence to be romantic-a few months after one of them had been shot in Berlin? I see diverse ingredients in our students' attitude toward violence. Of romanticism I see no trace. Also: Is society's strength measured by the volume of tough talk emanating from (mostly confused) officials? You state: "The radical students charge that Springer has manipulated public opinion in order to create a repressive society and an atmosphere of hate against them." Not only radical students charge that. Almost everybody I know does. Some...
Beholder & Beneficiary. The contest was close: Rockefeller, 31.1%; Volpe, 30%; Nixon, 26.2%, with the balance scattered. Under a new state law, Rockefeller gets all 34 convention votes on the first ballot-after that delegates are free to switch. While a minor victory in terms of delegate strength, it had a psychological impact. One of the strongest anti-Nixon arguments within the party is that Rockefeller, while not an orthodox Republican, is a vote-getting Republican, and the Bay State vote gave that thesis a little lift...
...chief beholder and beneficiary. Though Rocky tried gamely to defend his withdrawal in March as correct at the time, there seemed little doubt that it had been a blunder compounded by the subsequent developments he mentioned, most notably Lyndon Johnson's abdication and Nixon's continued strength in the polls (the latest Gallup showed him beating all three Democrats). If Rockefeller continued his coyness, his political scouts reported, Nixon probably would be unbeatable...
...first week as an official candidate, Hubert Humphrey acquired a zippy, red-striped jetliner and went on his way gathering delegate strength, campaign contributions, popular support and increasing self-confidence. "I'm going to win," he predicted...
McCarthy showed strength in Boulder (home of the University of Colorado) and in the middle-class suburbs of Denver. Humphrey got most of his support from mining and industrial areas like Pueblo and Colorado Springs...