Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often enthusiastic crowds. Encouraged by last week's Gallup poll showing him trailing Democrat Eugene McCarthy but leading both Hubert Humphrey and Nixon, the Governor told a Boston press conference: "I was just flying over your race track and I saw the horses coming into the stretch. If I could get into the lead in the stretch, believe me, that would be tremendously helpful." In Maine, he reminded audiences that he had been born in Bar Harbor and cried: "We're going to have a Maine President at last...
Manhattan's Gerhardt Liebmann, 39, recently exhibited a series of canvases that show nothing but bricks, forming endless cells or piled in heaps that stretch away to infinity. Their dreamlike, surreal character is conveyed by Liebmann's adroit deviations from strict perspective. The bricks at the upper edges of his canvases do not tilt in toward the vanishing point in the center as much as they should. Thus Liebmann creates the impression of an infinitely expanding sterile waste. The bricks also suggest the relentless monotony and cubicled isolation of big-city living, where, in Liebmann's opinion...
...lessons provided by Disneyland were put to their first serious test in 1961, when a barren stretch of land midway between Dallas and Fort Worth was taken over by the Great Southwest Corp. and built into the site of Six Flags over Texas, an $18 million, 40-acre imitation Disneyland that even Disney employees concede is a "pretty good job." Following Disney's rules, it has thematic sections (one for each flag) and such thrilling rides as the Runaway Train trip through a series of mock 1890s-style hazards. To date, some 11 million paying visitors have loved...
...underendowed a stretch of land as exists anywhere in the world, the Gaza Strip hardly seems to qualify as a territorial prize. The 25-mile-long seaside sliver of formerly Egyptian-run territory is more thickly settled than The Netherlands; it is more crowded with problems than any other area occupied by Israel in the Middle East war. Some 60% of its 350,000 inhabitants are refugees who lost their lands to the Israelis in 1948. Most of them live on the dole in eight refugee camps, sitting in the shade of their huts and shuffling sad-eyed from...
...present de facto guaranteed annual income is a mess. It is expensive and most of the money goes to people who are not by any stretch of the imagination poor. It involves a tremendous bureaucracy, wide-spread intervention into the operation of the market system in areas that have nothing to do with poverty, and inexcusable interferences with the individual freedom and dignity of the truly poor who receive assistance...