Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first campaign. As a popular and innovative insurance commissioner, he developed a solid state-wide consituency, which is now a good match for Wyman's established base of support in the southern part of the state--his Congressional district for ten years. The question then comes down to the swing vote--some 20 per cent of the electorate declared themselves undecided in a poll conducted only last week...
...Walters, Astronaut Alan Shepard and Publisher William Randolph Hearst. Happy Rockefeller will not be standing on ceremony with any of them. "I just want everyone to feel they can have a good time," she says, "and put their feet up and relax." She does contemplate one further addition: a swing on the huge white oak tree beside the house. "I love to swing," she notes ebulliently. "It clears the head...
...fall of Gonçalves represents the most devastating setback that military radicals and their Communist supporters have suffered since the start of the April 1974 revolution. The new Revolutionary Council appears to lean solidly toward the moderate-center; it contains seven moderates, eight swing officers and only four known cohorts of Gonçalves. Last week's actions also apparently restored the Council to its role as supreme arbiter of the revolution; its power had been eclipsed since the creation in late July of a ruling triumvirate composed of Gonçalves, President Francisco da Costa Gomes...
...schizophrenic auto market. Recession or no, sales of big luxury cars are booming; Cadillac's $12,479 "international size" Seville helped carry total Cadillac sales to an alltime monthly record of 25,000 cars in July. But standard-sized cars are gathering dust on dealer lots, because the swing of more budget-conscious buyers to smaller, lighter models that are stingier on gas is developing more quickly than Detroit had expected. This year for the first time, small cars have captured more than 50% of the market...
...near-paralysis. For most of last week, as overwhelming majorities of the military and the public called for him to resign, pro-Communist Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves hung on, issuing dark warnings that if he were ousted, the Communist Party's armed militia would swing into action...