Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father's control extends into Charles's mind. He has periods in which he is overcome by violent forces that black out his memory. He wakes up with bloodied hands, and, in a sequence recalling Hitchcock's Vertigo, finds himself going down a set of stairs that tilt and swing wildly under...
...Humphrey's hold on Milwaukee's black wards. Although this did not make a critical difference in the Western primary McGovern's inability to reach the black vote promised to present more of a problem in the upcoming primaries in states where the black population was large enough to swing the election. In fact the problem of McGovern`s poor relationship with black voters and pol`s was thrown into high relief when he lost the Ohio- primary...
Head Start and secretary in the pathology department of the University of Virginia. She has one year of college behind her, and hopes to finish up "somewhere." For now she is stumping for her father. She is soon scheduled to begin a Southern campaign swing, accompanied by Lady Bird Johnson's former press secretary, Liz Carpenter...
...controlled was his campaign swing that Nixon hardly made an unscheduled pause. On arriving in Oakland, Calif., he shook some hands but missed many others. "What is this, a private party?" grumbled a Nixon supporter who had been faithfully waiting in the rain. Miffed as he was, he said he was still going to vote for the President. If the President hurried along, he had reasons; he was heading for bigger pickings at dinner in Los Angeles. To join him at the table, California fat cats shelled out even more than the New Yorkers-a cool $ 1.7 million. Bob Hope...
Harvard eased into its 337th Fall this week, either by the sheer momentum of time or the perserverance of its deans and administrators, or perhaps even by the grace of God. It was a curious week for those who observed the pendulum of student activism begin its wide swing in the year and a half prior to the 1968 Presidential election. Now, in another election year, they are witnessing the seeming return of that pendulum to a steady resting position. But this apparent steadiness is deceiving...