Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Changing Poll. The first Gallup poll since the conventions showed a surprising switch. Just before the Democratic Convention. Kennedy led 52 to 48. Last week's poll showed Nixon 50%, Kennedy 44%, undecided 6%. Nixon forces were concerned as well as pleased by the poll. They privately agreed with the Kennedy forces that it was probably taken too soon after the impact of Nixon's successful acceptance speech to be a steady indicator, and feared a downturn next time. Nixon forces are convinced that the "undecideds" are far more than 6%-perhaps 25% of the vote...
...seemed to symbolize the terrors of the cold war. Hanging from the neck of a dapper U.S.A.F. major was a set of keys. Next to him was a picture of the lock they fit on the control board of a Thor missile emplacement. The starkly simple marking on the switch: War and Peace...
...towns, even the slick young men in shiny black shoes and sports shirts stop flirting with their plump, pinch-waisted girl friends as the loudspeakers switch from the new music of the pachanga to news: "Old Mr. Herter is preparing ships and men at the Key West naval station to invade Cuba." At the Esso station, a workman paints the pumps green as a reminder that the revolution has changed Cuba so much that even the gasoline, refined from Russian oil, is different...
...self entirely to the leisurely life - cruising in his father's 52-ft. yacht The Marlin (built in 1930 for Edsel Ford), browsing through Anthony Trollope's novel The American Senator, swimming, napping, and playing in the backyard with Daughter Caroline, 2½. Then the special switch board began to flash like a swarm of fire flies, his appointment book began to fill up ominously, and Jack Kennedy found himself in the midst of a presidential campaign and more...
Along with the switch of policy, the White House downgraded Roy Richard Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, to the post of Ambassador to Argentina. During Ru-bottom's tenure, U.S. handling of Latin American relations has consisted chiefly of making, upon the arrival of a crisis, some concession that the U.S. previously vowed not to make. Item: for years the Latin American nations that rely largely on coffee for their livelihood asked the U.S. to cooperate in some form of international control over wild price fluctuations. In January 1958 Assistant Secretary Rubottom announced that price...