Word: switches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They could scarcely have known it at the time, but 48,245 North Carolinians who voted for the Republican ticket on Nov. 5 wound up casting their ballots for George Wallace instead. This switch was decided for them by Dr. Lloyd W. Bailey, a physician from Rocky Mount and one of 13 electors chosen by the state's voters to reflect their choice. By tradition, all the electoral votes should have gone automatically to Richard Nixon as winner of a plurality of the state's popular vote. Rather than ratify the Republican victory, however, Bailey, a loyal John...
Medical researchers then began to campaign for 1) a reduction in the total fats in the American diet, and 2) a switch from saturated to polyunsaturated fats. Easier said than done. The diet of the average well-nourished American derives 40% of its calories from fats, 40% from carbohydrates (sugars and starches), and 20% from protein. Just as they refuse to cut down on cigarettes, most Americans refuse to cut down seriously on fats. A more practicable solution, it appeared, would be to change the kind of fat, from mostly saturated to mostly polyunsaturated...
Snarl and Slowdown. For the year ahead, there is apprehension over the persistent paperwork backlog, which has snarled delivery of securities. Overruling a last-minute plea from the Securities and Exchange Commission to reconsider, the nation's stock exchanges decided to switch from Wednesday closings, in effect since June 12, to shorter hours. Five-day-a-week trading, with closings at 2 p.m. instead of 3:30 in New York, will resume this week. Some brokers share the SEC's fears that the most severe effects of the paperwork jam are yet to be felt. Industry leaders, however...
Rodwin said that the Wood-Moynihan switch in roles was "an accident of history...
...Mansholt's plan as a way of dealing with the farm surpluses that the Six have lately been trying to reduce through high-pressure selling abroad. But Washington is unhappy over Mansholt's call for a high tax on vegetable-oil products, designed to encourage Europeans to switch from margarine to butter. The U.S. contends that the levy would violate international prohibitions against the use of domestic taxes for protectionist purposes. In any case, it would certainly threaten the U.S.'s $450 million-a-year sales of soybean products to Western Europe. The U.S.'s largest...