Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haldeman joined the advertising firm of J. Walter Thompson in 1949, just as the Alger Hiss trial was in full swing, and again found himself under the spell of a crusading Nixon. By 1956 he had joined Nixon as an advance man and within four years, he was chief of the advance men in the presidential campaign. "I labeled him the chief of the frogmen because he and his crew were always hopping about," says Herb Klein. "His wife collects artificial frogs even...
Though Heath cried last week, "We are going to win!" the Tories need an electoral swing of at least 4% in their favor over their 1966 showing. The greatest swing in the last six general elections, however, was only 3.1%, and there are doubts that Heath can retrieve a victory. As Wilson said jestingly in the House of Commons a few weeks ago, "However tired people may be of me, I think most will regard me as the lesser of two evils...
...suggestion of a young politics professor. New Congress already has twelve regional centers across the nation and affiliates at 280 campuses. Last week students were using a Princeton computer to analyze congressional-election results of the past ten years to choose district races where student help might swing an election. Among the first candidates chosen were four antiwar Democrats-Joseph Duffey for Senator in Connecticut, Norval Reece for Senator in Pennsylvania, Lewis Kaden for Congressman in New Jersey's 15th District and Nicholas Lamont in Pennsylvania's Third District. In the New Jersey race, more than 200 students...
...pieces, many destined for permanent exhibition when the museum expands its American Wing. One of the earliest rooms contains a severe but elegant Duncan Phyfe parlor set done around 1837 in the master's late Empire style. Twenty years later, the fashion for historical revivals was in full swing; the yellow satin sofa and chairs of the John Taylor Johnston parlor are a free adaptation of Louis XVI neoclassicism by the French-trained New York designer Léon Marcotte. Over them hangs a chandelier that cunningly conceals newfangled gas piping beneath its fake candles and pseudo-18th century...
...Jesse Lee Turner was among the universe's most eligible bachelors ten years ago. One aggressive girl, who claimed to have four arms, three eyes, and three lips, said to Jesse, "I can really rock and swing cause I've got more of everything. Oh. Mr. Earth Man, won't you marry me?" What song told us of this dramatic proposal...