Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...penthouse suite, could have noted in the first several states an extra vote here and there beyond his minimal requirements. Then Florida and Georgia came through with large majorities?evidence that the Reagan movement had collapsed. Maryland delivered 18 out of 26. Four Michiganders deserted Romney. Mississippi's unit rule held for the entire delegation of 20. The undermining of Case's position in New Jersey produced a welcome 18 out of 40. In Pennsylvania, Nixon picked up 22 more...
...hopes of giving the dissidents a fair hearing at the convention, a group of Democrats led by Iowa's Governor Harold Hughes last week formed the unwieldy sounding Commission of Democratic Selection of Presidential Nominees. Its aims are to campaign for abolition of the unit rule, offer guidelines on seating of disputed delegations, and work to ensure adequate representation for minority groups. Yet Hughes, now running for the Senate, is unhappy with McCarthy as well as Humphrey. Once a confidant of Lyndon Johnson, Hughes fell out with the Administration, largely because of the war, and became a Robert Kennedy...
...asphalt blacktop boiling on roads for miles around. Citrus fruit sizzled on branches in neighboring orchards. When the planes let up briefly, the people of Salt streamed out to survey the damage and were hit by the second wave of planes that caught ambulances, taxis and a television mobile unit from Amman parked out in the open. Two dozen people sought shelter in a culvert, but an Israeli fighter pilot blew it apart with pinpoint rocket fire. Not a vehicle on the roads in the area escaped damage or direct hits. Altogether, the Jordanians claimed, 34 people died...
Worries Ahead. Still, little by little, the Vice President was shedding his cloak of amiable ambivalence. After more prodding by McCarthy, he released delegates bound to him by the unit rule, which in some states binds all delegates to one candidate. He then challenged his adversary to release McCarthy delegates in Oregon and Massachusetts, proving, when McCarthy backed away, that the issue went both ways and had been exaggerated from the beginning. Belatedly, McCarthy admitted that Humphrey's gesture would bring only about eight delegates to his side. When Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, undiplomatically...
...their way into South Viet Nam - a number "greater than at any other time in this war" and nearly enough to fill all the Communists' man power gaps. Intelligence sources also report that captured documents point to ward a "third-wave offensive," coming in the next few weeks. Unit troop movements have been particularly elusive, placing some enemy manpower far out side immediate fighting range; this could be in anticipation of an extended lull, or it could be simply for safe refitting and regrouping. In fact, the evidence is ambiguous, and as with Hanoi's unenlightening silence...