Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Water Gap. Brown has many reasons to duck all-out candidacy and none to proclaim it at this time. In his short time in office, he has pushed the newly Democratic legislature into remarkable action e.g., approval of the $1.8 billion water-resources development program (TIME, June 29), a $61...
"Oh hell, let's go!" exclaimed New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, closing a mid-September strategy huddle. "I want to do it, and regardless of what I do or don't do the speculation will continue." His mind made up, his plans well laid, Rockefeller last...
After warmups this week in Atlantic City, Manhattan and Chicago, Rockefeller's giant step will take him to Los Angeles on Nov. 12 for a luncheon speech before the World Affairs Council. By no coincidence, he will arrive in Los Angeles as the Western States Republican Conference assembles, and...
...this process of self-enrichment, compounded of many handshakes and conversations, will come Rockefeller's shrewd assessment of his chances, according to his close friends. Like a riverboat gambler, willing to risk all if the odds are right but unwilling to plunge recklessly, in the months ahead Rocky will weigh the evidence, not merely of the polls, but of the state of the nation and the world, all of which bear so critically on the fortunes of Vice President Nixon. Said he last week...
"Certainly all that I hear, see and feel will go into the decision-making process, will go into determining what I regard as the right course. I don't lay down any framework. I judge a course of action by all the circumstances prevailing at the time a decision...