Word: winning
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Organism for 1968. Tied up with the party's chances of winning is the larger question for the nation: how the Republicans seek to win. They could attempt to capitalize on the electorate's fears and frustrations by promising the cheap and the quick: a smaller tax bite for the middle class and a bigger night stick for the ghetto. Or they could attempt the far more demanding mission of conducting what Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer calls "the politics of realism"-of identifying the direction to be taken and setting the difficult course for the journey...
Yesterday Volpe submitted a 17-page "study" to Richard Nixon which supposedly would reveal the type of man that the Republicans should nominate for vice-president. Conducted by James F. and Constance S. Collins, two statistical analysts, the study concluded that if the Republicans are to win in 1968 it is essential to have an Italian-Catholic on the ticket...
...everywhere people ask: Who's going to win? What will Gov. Rhodes do with his Ohio delegation? Who will the winner pick for his Vice Presidential candidate? Does Nixon really have it sewed up on the first ballot...
Even though Johnson does not personally subscribe to the theories advanced in Digest, he obviously feels a duty to keep on publishing it, despite the fact that it loses between $80,000 and $100,000 a year. He is happy to see its authors win prizes, as they occasionally do, and make their way into anthologies. "I think it's important," he says, "that all elements of the black movement be represented in the magazines." But he has no plans to replace a tolerance of diversity with a rigid creed. "Essentially, our policy is an inspirational one," he says...
When he beat Ben Hogan to win his first U.S. Open championship in 1952, Julius Boros was described by a sportswriter as a man who "played with a cool nonchalance, chomping blades of grass, making shots with a cigarette dangling from his lips." In 1963, when he won the Open for the second time by beating Arnold Palmer in a playoff, he was said to be "placid and pleasant." Last week Boros was still cool, nonchalant, placid and pleasant-and still winning. This time, the prize was his third major title, the Professional Golfers Association championship. Boros still chomped...