Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...replacing geographical balance as the criteria for the second spot. Reagan, Texas Senator John Tower and Florida Governor Claude Kirk figured less prominently in the speculation; if Nixon decided that he needed a man from the right to offset George Wallace's third-party appeal, he was expected to turn to them. But the betting favored someone from the liberal camp...
...league's proposed budget of $6,100,000 is largely contributed by major corporations and white donors. As the most affluent of all civil rights groups, it has the green power to turn words into deeds. Last year its 1,400 full-time workers found jobs for more than 60,000 applicants, upgraded workers in 10,000 jobs, and placed 20,000 more in training programs. Next year league staffers will also tackle merchants who gouge ghetto dwellers with unfair credit terms, bad housing, and the explosive issue of police in the slums...
...with the formation of a conciliatory central government in Saigon. The National Liberation Front has, of course, its own design for a coalition government representing a broad segment of South Vietnamese society but excluding members of the present government of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Thieu, in turn, so far refuses to countenance any coalition with the Front or the Viet Cong, and has jailed prominent South Vietnamese, including former Presidential Candidate Truong Dinh Dzu two weeks ago, for even daring to suggest the notion...
...Socialist youths in Sofia symbolized and expressed the widespread sentiment of Communist parties across Europe. It was this opposition, the prospect of profoundly splitting the already splintered Communist world, that was a big factor in the outcome of the Russian-Czechoslovak confrontation. In a memorable turn of events, Russia last week backed down on nearly all its demands of Alexander Dubcek's reformist regime in Czechoslovakia (see following story...
...cabs have the kind of appeal that is hard to equal. Heads turn whenever he drives by. Katz has sold his black Austin cabs to banks, restaurants, men's clothing stores ,and a few individuals on a spur-of-the-moment basis...