Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Veep Spiro T. Agnew will make is more than usually clouded. At the beginning of the campaign, he made anonymity an asset. A joking reference to "What's-His-Name" warmed an audience up. The admission that Agnew w.as "not exactly a household word" carried a nice touch of modesty. By the end of the campaign, many Republican strategists wished that Agnew had remained What's-His-Name. The Vice President-elect had become not only a figure of comedy and controversy but also a decided liability. "Sure I think he hurt us," said a Nixon aide on Election...
...Bircher or an isolationist." His political acumen made Bellmon, now 47, the first Republican Governor (1963-67) in Oklahoma's 61-year history, and now sends him to the Senate. Mindful that he overturned able Democratic Veteran Senator Mike Monroney with the argument that Monroney, 66, had lost touch with his grass roots, Rancher Bellmon is not likely to spend all his time in Washington...
...Touch of the Romans. I-I is edited for performance-minded money man agers like Scarsdale, but it is also finding an increasing audience among men who decide what stocks will be bought and sold by mutual funds, banks, universities, insurance companies and pen sion systems. I-I figures that its readers could easily muster assets of well over $400 billions - more than enough to pay off the national debt...
...James Jr. had died in New York. Books and cards kept toppling over to an angle that matched that of the hands of a clock at 8:19. Eventually, Pike consulted an Anglican cleric who was interested in psychic phenomena; he suggested that Jim was trying to get in touch with Pike from the beyond and recommended the bishop to a "sensitive" named Ena Twigg. It was in her London sitting room, Pike says, that he first got in touch with Jim. "I am not in purgatory," the boy told his father, "but something like hell, here." He mustered enough...
Kroll has been at Fort Devens since October 7 when FBI agents and Federal marshals entered Marsh Chapel and arrested him in front of 500 student sympathizers. A member of the New England Resistance, which has been in touch with Kroll since his arrest, said he has lost a lot of weight but is still "in good spirits...