Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most surprised to find one of my newest swimsuits (for Lily Of France), which is not yet on the market, used as the lead picture in your "Look, No Straps" story [May 3]. I am particularly upset about the fact that in your story a reference is made to a Calvin Klein Lycra maillot as his "coolest hot-seller." Certainly looks as though my suit is his bestseller-is that a way to treat a trend...
...Michigan primary, the Labor Department released statistics showing that Detroit had the highest unemployment rate (17.4%) of any American city in 1975. Said a top official at Labor: "I just don't understand how they came up with timing like this. If you think I'm upset, you should hear the boys at the White House...
...applause to Carter, the David turned Goliath. Nonetheless, most of the party pros at the dinner reluctantly but realistically had their minds set on Carter as their almost certain presidential nominee. Nor were those expectations changed when the news came later in the night that Carter had been narrowly upset by Idaho Senator Frank Church in the Nebraska primary. Even with that setback Carter has won twelve of 17 primaries, drawn more than 4 million votes and locked well over 600 delegates (needed to nominate: 1,505). A recent Gallup poll showed rank-and-file Democrats prefer him to Humphrey...
...upset-minded Mather House eight nipped Eliot House by one seat in yesterday's House intramural rowing regatta on the Charles...
...slump in home building (housing starts were 43% below 1973), the harvest from 155 national forests still topped 9 billion board feet, or 27% of the industry totals. Most of it was softwood for paper products and the building industry. But now this arrangement has been completely upset by environmentalist suits...