Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Consider me one Republican who will be happy to swap the electoral votes of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana. South Carolina and Arizona for those of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and California-for starters...
...takes place on a suspension bridge, and the plot is a shoestring. A beatnik's beatnik, Harry Berlin (Alan Arkin), is poised for a suicidal leap. Up comes natty Milt Manville (Eli Wallach), who recognizes him as a onetime classmate at Poly-Arts U. They swap case histories. Harry tells a tale of existential woe that started when a fox terrier mistook his pant leg for a hydrant: "I was nauseous, sick to my soul, I became aware . . . aware of the whole rotten senseless stinking deal." Mimed in outrageously funny fashion by Alan Arkin, Harry is so sick that...
Nemec and Bystricky believe that when two caulobacters cling together in this manner they are, in effect, mating -exchanging genetic material through their stalks. If the conjugating caulobacters belong to strains with different hereditary endowment, both may be improved by the swap. This is the great advantage of sexuality for any form of life; it permits faster evolution...
...never had it so good." In general, though, Democrats, like detergent manufacturers, favor slogans that offer a new and better product ("New Deal," "New Frontier"). The Grand Old Party, like whisky distillers, prefers to emphasize aged-in-the-wood reliability, from Abraham Lincoln's "Don't swap horses in the middle of the stream" to 1924's "Keep cool with Coolidge...
...same net, FBI men in New York had snared Ivan D. Egorov, 41, a member of the United Nations Secretariat, and his wife Aleksandra. They too were charged with espionage but were later swapped for the return of two Americans held by the Soviets - Jesuit Priest Walter Ciszek and Marvin W. Makinen, a Fulbright scholar from Asburnham, Mass. Was there another swap in the wind...