Word: virtually
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Everybody was wrong, including Ludwig Erhard. For weeks, the pollsters had been predicting a virtual tie between Erhard's Christian Democratic Union and the opposition Social Democrats in West Germany's national elections. Watching the returns trickling in on TV with his wife Luise, the Chancellor confided, "I always counted on having a jump on the opposition of about 5% . I felt it in my fingertips...
Last March, as Thayer pointed out, the publishers gave the International Typographical Union virtual veto rights over any new machines. The move promised little in the way of future benefit, but it added to present trouble. Now the Guild insists that its very survival demands the same power. Otherwise, it says, jobs that it now controls may drift into I.T.U. jurisdiction. And when it isn't fighting over automation, the Guild, which might be expected to encourage modernizing, is squabbling with the Times over pensions and job security for members who might lose work if other New York papers...
...IVES: FOURTH SYMPHONY (Columbia). Charles Ives once said, "I found out I could not go on using the familiar chords early. I heard something else." Indeed he did, and as a virtual recluse who had never heard a note of Schoenberg, he set down his inner music, delving into dissonance and polytonality in 1916. The work was not played until 50 years after it was written, and this first recording by Leopold Stokowski and the American Symphony Orchestra celebrates the long-delayed recognition of a major composer...
...tough brigadier who commanded with virtual autonomy the 1,700 crack troops of the Armed Forces Training Center at San Isidro, nine miles east of Santo Domingo, Wessin y Wessin, 40, was the key man in the fall of President Juan Bosch's inept, Red-pampering government in 1963. He was one of the first to recognize Castroite influence in the pro-Bosch revolt against Donald Reid Cabral last spring (TIME cover, May 7). Calling for U.S. help, he sent his tanks and F51 fighters to contain the rebels in a corner of downtown Santo Domingo. For this...
Shuman's disappointment was even keener because he felt that Johnson was throwing away a rare opportunity to move toward a freer market. His reasoning: the record 1965 crop was already a virtual certainty, and only proved again that the present control system was unworkable in reducing production. Thus, he figured, Johnson could afford to experiment with fewer controls and if it did not work out, could not be held accountable at the polls for not having made an honest effort to solve the farm problem...