Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Caught in a Tide." At 5:45 on the night of the Oregon voting, Cabot Lodge's campaign managers huddled privately in their downtown Portland headquarters, confidently put the finishing touches to a victory statement. Less than three hours later, Massachusetts Importer Paul Grindle picked his way through a scramble of TV cables to deliver instead a statement of concession for the ambassador. Said he: "Governor Rockefeller put on a tremendous drive here and displayed tremendous guts, and I suspect that the voters of Oregon have joined in our admiration of a man who fights like this...
...Lodge people retired to lick their wounds, sighing that "now we know what it is like to be caught in a tide." Boston Attorney David Goldberg, who had helped engineer Lodge's March victory in New Hampshire, took another look at the returns and muttered: "Poor Lou." He meant big-time Pollster Lou Harris, who ordinarily works for Democrats but had taken a big dabble in trying to predict Oregon's Republican vote. His election-eve guess of 34% to the winner and 28% to the runner-up was close-he just had the names in the wrong...
...much the ruling in McLaughlin and Hoffman v. Florida will affect other state miscegenation laws will not be known until the court hands down its decision next fall. But the tide seems to be running against the old Southern custom. In 1948, the California State Supreme Court ruled California's miscegenation law unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. Antimiscegenation laws have since been repealed in other states; in Nebraska one was wiped off the books only last year. Goal of the N.A.A.C.P. in this case: "Freedom to join in marriage with the person of one's own choice...
...tide of most men's lives begins to turn after 75 years. And though their vital energies are not yet sapped, three men who reached that mark last week could be pardoned if they paused for a moment to consider their own three quarters of a century...
...swiftly for the padre. Many of the men who had made things so difficult for him were consigned to the ecclesiastical boondocks; Maccari himself has been sent to an obscure parish in the Piemonte. Padre Pio once more hears confession without fear, is available to everyone. Once again, the tide of pilgrims has begun to swell. Would the crooks also resume their sordid trade? Padre Pio could...