Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President is counting on Nixon to commit a damaging blunder at some point during the fall, or at least to campaign so timidly, in the hope of avoiding errors, that he will fail to generate sufficient enthusiasm to win. Thus, after Nixon carefully avoided comment on a number of touchy issues during a televised interview in Chicago last week, Humphrey happily said: "I remember when Tom Dewey thought he could glide through a campaign full of love and kisses. All he thought he had to do was smile. He was wrong...
...unduly rosy view. The nation's increasingly conservative mood seems to be working against him. His own strategists figure that Nixon and Alabama's George Wallace will roll up 55% to 60% of the total vote between them. They also estimate that Humphrey will have to win 80% of the nation's Negro and Jewish votes, though recent New York polls give him only 60% of those groups in that pivotal area, with 20% still undecided...
...than Greeks (600,000), giving the Democrats a clear edge in that department over Nixon's vice-presidential choice, Spiro Agnew. Particularly important is the fact that the heaviest concentrations of Poles are in nine key industrial states that account for 196 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.* Muskie may well be able to offset George Wallace's strong appeal to this bloc. In his acceptance speech, Muskie acquitted himself well, underscoring the need for the U.S. "to build a peace, to heal our country...
...left them stranded. He gave up only one hit, a harmless double in the sixth, and was taken out of the game in the seventh with 2⅔ scoreless innings to his credit. By then the Yanks had six runs of their own. They went on to win, giving Colavito, who ranks 15th among the all-time home-run hitters (372), his first major-league pitching victory. Rocky the Reliever is more than likely to appear again. Says Manager Houk: "He did a real fine job for us. I'd like to use him some more...
...that he becomes a confused prisoner of himself. He calls this book a search for himself, yet adds with equal earnestness that "the more I explain myself, the less I understand myself." The closest he comes to that understanding is when he describes himself as "someone who hopes to win first prize in a lottery without having bought a ticket...