Word: swings
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...organization, and votes. This season the money and organization belong to the guys in the black hats. Nixon-Agnew and Co. have launched a frontal assault to wrest the third ingredient, votes, away from its traditional owner, the Democratic party. If they are successful it will mean a major swing to the right for the United States, with the precise results of that swing left to anyone's guess. One thing is clear, however; if the Nixon-Agnew candidates are successful, the results will not be very pleasant for the Vietnamese, black people, the economy, or students...
More and more University of Hartford students were coming back to school and discovering the YAF convention going in full-swing on their campus. Many of them hung around the student lounge, talking and eyeing the young conservatives, who eyed them back. Many of them resented the fact that the university had rented out the campus to such a group. "It's like having ROTC set up in your lounge." Some were really angry: "This is an example of the liberal attitude towards education: separate values for the educational process.... It's an example of the latent schizophrenia...
...judicious: "This was the week to make the speech. To have waited a few weeks would have opened him to the charge that he was simply playing politics with the war issue." Both Stewart and Jim Allison, deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee, agreed that Viet Nam will swing few votes in November. Said Allison: "I don't think the speech will have any particular effect on the votes one way or the other. What this really does is negate the issue." But the speech was not without political effect. Democratic and Republican strategists alike felt that...
...Unity coalition conferred for 16 hours and agreed to meet with the Christian Democrats to consider a constitutional amendment incorporating all the C.D.P. demands except one rescinding the President's right to make military appointments. It was a thin concession on Allende's part, but it was enough to swing the C.D.P. In a session at week's end, the party agreed to support Allende unanimously. Barring an unlikely military coup or even more unlikely outside intervention, he will be inaugurated Chile's next President...
Crone ran all over Rutgers in the fourth quarter, but by then Rutgers had virtually given up. Crone gave away a touchdown with a stray swing pass, and Foster saved one by scrambling for his blocked punt in the Harvard end zone...