Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When George Romney made his first political trip to New Hampshire last July, the Manchester Union Leader greeted him with a frontpage editorial headlined: GEORGE ROMNEY CAN'T AND SHOULDN'T WIN. The editorial went on to quote an unnamed corporation president as saying, "Romney is one of the meanest men I ever had anything to do with." That was just the beginning. One editorial after another flayed Romney for "letting down the boys in Viet Nam," for acting like a "desperate demagogue," for not being born in the U.S. Complained the paper: "It would be hard...
...policy, described in full-page newspaper advertisements in the U.S., would affect "every cent of every dollar in revenue earned by Lufthansa in the U.S." Pledging that "all such revenues will be used exclusively for expenditures in the U.S.," Lufthansa went on to make it clear that most of the money would go for additions to me airline's intercontinental fleet, which consists entirely of U.S.-made Boeing aircraft. "Lufthansa," concluded the airline's advertisement, "has spent more than $550 million on American-built aircraft alone-and has already contracted for future delivery of over $130 million...
...himself an inveterate traveler who thinks nothing of commuting between his California home and the Diners' Club Manhattan headquarters. The grandson of the founder of Bloomingdale's department store in New York City, he played tackle on the Brown University football team and after graduation in 1938 went to work for his grandfather's old store. Finding little satisfaction in a business no longer owned but still heavily influenced by his family ("You can't get fired that way"), he quit within a year to go into show business. Over the next few years...
Skip Hare leaped 23' 1 1/4"--his best ever--for first place in the broad jump. Bob Galliers, who went 23' 2" in the Big Three meet last Saturday, had trouble with foot faults and took third...
Steve Schoonover, the best pole vaulter in Ivy League history, tied his season-high vault of 15' 6" to win first. Pete Lazarus went 14' and took second...