Word: waited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other year but 1964, Republican Charles Percy, 46, would almost certainly have defeated lackluster Otto Kerner for Governor of Illinois. As it was, the Goldwater debacle cost Percy the race, but established him as one of the G.O.P.'s most vigorous and attractive campaigners. Rather than wait until the next gubernatorial election in 1968 to resume his political career, the Bell & Howell board chairman announced last week that he was a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat of Paul Douglas, his onetime (1938) economics professor at the University of Chicago...
...visas to the West German bishops-but if he does, Pope Paul VI, who in the 1920s filled a diplomatic post in Warsaw and who would greatly like to attend the ceremonies at Czestochowa himself, can hardly overlook the insult to his church. The Vatican last week could only wait, and hope that Gomulka would simmer down...
...idly at anchor. Some 40 more are being held up in the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan until the traffic thins. With the U.S. buildup, incoming cargo has increased tenfold in half a year, to 800,000 tons last month-and 60% of it must pass through Saigon. The average wait for a ship to be unloaded is 22 days at Saigon, 31 at Cam Ranh Bay, 40 at Danang-though both Cam Ranh and Danang are rapidly being improved...
Though they would have preferred that the Federal Reserve wait until January, when the final figures for next year's budget will be ready, even the President's economic advisers did not seriously quarrel with the board's move. They were impressed by November figures that showed a rapid rise in bank credit and by an additional and unexpected rise of $900 million in plans for plant and equipment investment in 1966 -a jump indicating that the pressure on credit will be more permanent than previously supposed...
Alfred said that he had considered taking his sabbatical this Spring, but preferred to wait until next year, so the total time away from Harvard would include two summers. "Besides," he added, if I had decided to leave Harvard this spring, I would have gone to New York and devoted time to Hogan's Goat. At east up here I don't have the chance to be nervous...