Word: woo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plumping for such programs as aid to education (although not, like McCormack, for aid to parochial schools), job retraining and financial assistance to Massachusetts' fishing industry. He did not, therefore, think it "appropriate" that he should "also advocate at this time a tax cut." McCormack, obviously trying to woo the ban-the-bomb supporters of Independent Stuart Hughes (see following story), stated: "We should stop production of nuclear weapons. We have sufficient over kill now." Kennedy won applause, even from the pro-McCormack audience, by saying: "I don't think in 1962 we can afford any kind...
Since Russian tanks crushed the Budapest uprising in 1956. Communist Boss Janos Kadar, 50. has ruled Hungary with judicious use of carrot and club. He ruthlessly exterminated the revolt leaders but tried to woo the Hungarian people with consumer goods and such self-deprecating slogans as "He who is not against me is with me." To get the faltering economy moving. Kadar replaced many of the inefficient Red managers with non-Communist Hungarian technicians, arguing that "political reliability and professional competence are two different things...
...connections, and the effort is paying off: IBM's choice of Rochester, Minn., San Jose, Calif., and Westchester, N.Y., for new locations was swayed by the lively cultural life in those areas. In Cincinnati, Procter & Gamble mails a brochure on local cultural events to potential recruits. Projects to woo the muses and the masses are now big business, and range in scope and ambition from Manhattan's $142 million Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which opens for business next month with the completion of the new Philharmonic Hall, to Rockville, Md., which has recently built itself...
...much as a change within the party. Cobwebbed Conservative policies and lackluster leaders have succeeded in alienating a large segment of the young, middle-class voters who swept the party into office eleven years ago in response to the forward-looking policies that were dubbed "pink Toryism." To woo them back, Macmillan plucked from his front and back benches a clutch of European-minded, relatively young M.P.s (the Cabinet's average age was lowered from 55-plus to 51) who are among the brightest and ablest politicians in Britain...
Second Thoughts. What stands in his way is the obdurate opposition of the Governors, who control the Guard in their states during peacetime. To woo them, McNamara was well prepared when he arrived in Hershey. After warmly shaking hands with every Governor in sight, McNamara read a speech pointing out that the reshuffling of the Guard would cause a decrease of only 295 units from the present total of 4,336. Only 16 of the 2,428 armories, he promised, would be left without a unit. And, on the sorest point of all, he noted that the proposed manpower...