Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muskie headquarters on election night, 1972, the candidate watches in stunned silence. Pennsylvania, a swing state, has already gone Republican, with surprising Nixon strength turning up in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Illinois and Ohio are slipping away from the Democrats, thanks to similar Nixon support in the cities...
Connally lowered the U.S. ante right at the start. The American delegation opened by asking for an average 11 % revaluation of foreign currencies against the dollar, and offering to drop the import surcharge in return. By some calculations, that would produce a $9 billion swing from deficit toward surplus in the U.S. trade balance, rather than the $13 billion switch that Connally had once labeled a non-negotiable demand. An official U.S. paper also stated a "presumption that there would be no change in the value of gold." In the oblique language of financial diplomacy, that statement meant the opposite...
SUCH were the reflections of TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey as he accompanied Humphrey on one more political swing not long ago. No question, Humphrey is back and running hard for the nomination. He is well down the road toward announcing his candidacy for 1972. So far this year he has traveled to 31 states, talking with trade associations, labor delegations, youth groups, and of course party politicians. Humphrey, who lost the presidency to Richard Nixon in 1968 by a mere half-million votes, insists that his chance for a second nomination is good. He eagerly points out that...
...against Dartmouth that year, DeMars took a swing pass 75 yards for a touchdown in what was to be a losing cause. He started the Penn game and established himself as a first-string back by rushing for 138 yards...
Outside Chile, Allende is rapidly winning acceptance. On a recent ten-day swing through Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, he won pledges of moral support for his sweeping nationalization of American-owned firms. Even Argentina's jittery military regime has begun to regard its Marxist neighbor as just another striving nationalist. The Communist countries have been careful not to embrace Allende too eagerly, for fear that they might do him more harm than good. For that reason, Fidel Castro refused an invitation to Allende's inauguration last year; he is due to arrive in Santiago for his first visit...