Word: treads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never one to rush in where the cautious fear to tread, New York's Democratic Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner was brooding deeply. Should he run for Governor this year against Republican Nelson Rockefeller? Would he have a chance of winning? Before making up his mind, Wagner was awaiting a report, due shortly, on a statewide, 1,200-interview survey by Pollster Louis Harris. "Whether Wagner runs for Governor," said a Democratic county chairman, "depends upon what Lou Harris tells him." Plenty of U.S. politicians nowadays wait to make decisions until they hear from Lou Harris. At 41, Harris...
...Without skills, summer job hunters need either good luck or good contacts," Richard L. McVity, director of the Summer Employment Office, said recently. A new tread accounting "skill courses" is the employment office's answer to this situation...
James Q. Wilson, lecturer in government, questioned many of Lanigan's assertions. Citing the poor record reform has had in this country, he advised would-be reformers to "tread warily...
Starts Wednesday: Another Hollywood re-tread, this one of a delightful Marcel Pagnol novel, Fanny, which became, progressively, a stage play, a fine trilogy of films, a dull Broadway musical, and now all this -- the poorest of the lot. The principals are Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz and (how could it possibly be a decent picture?) Maurice Chevalier. Joshua Logan directed. Afternoons and evenings...
Escort Salisbury is confident that the Russian journalists took something much more important than their souvenirs back to Moscow. "It's like a tire picking up bits of gravel in the tread," said he. "But in this case, the gravel is not going to work its way out. It's going to work in deeper and deeper. And that's going to remain a problem for these men all the rest of their lives...