Word: token
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Coffee and Cokes. Nixon won with no help at all from California and Massachusetts and only token support from three of the other large states, New York, Ohio and Michigan. He owed his victory to Illinois, most of the smaller states in the West and Middle West, and particularly to the South and the Border States. Excluding Arkansas, which stayed with Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, 14 Southern and Border States delivered 298 votes, or 45% of the number needed to nominate. Thus Nixon's determination to keep the South happy...
After six years as head of the nation's most complex state, California's Governor could hardly be faulted, as he was this year, for inexperience. By the same token, his luster might dim with so much exposure to some of the nation's most corrosive problems. In the meantime, whether Nixon wins or loses, Reagan will be a potent spokesman for conservatism, both in the party and in the country...
...college campuses in Peking, Shanghai and Canton, which have been dominated by Red Guards. To dramatize the move, Mao sent a shipment of mangoes to the workers on Tsinghua University campus in Peking, where they were solemnly sniffed and touched, one commentary reverently reported, then preserved chemically as a "token of Chairman Mao's great attention to the working class." The gift was celebrated at campus rallies all over the country...
...November, his opponent will be Republican Businessman Charles Bernard of Earle (pop. 2,896), who has lots of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller's money behind him, but little else. Rockefeller himself won renomination over token opposition...
...reached, all foreigners might well be asked to leave the areas involved. Thus a system based on this new oil-spot theory might work to gradually lower the level of violence. It would have the liability of confirming Viet Cong control in areas they already own. By the same token, the government would have its rule in clearly held areas validated. And as Samuel P. Huntington, chairman of the department of government at Harvard, points out in the current Foreign Affairs, one of the most dramatic and little-remarked impacts of the war has been the shift in population from...