Word: worsted
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...Negro antipathy. Fortas is opposed not for what he has done but for what he is: the choice of a man who will be in office for less than seven more months, and the President's close friend and confidant to boot. The appointment smacked of "cronyism at its worst," said Michigan's Robert Griffin, "and everybody knows it." The charge of cronyism was reinforced by the fact that, to fill the vacancy left by Earl Warren's retirement and Fortas' move up, Lyndon Johnson appointed his old friend and fellow Texan, Homer Thornberry (see box, page...
...last year's National Assembly elections. In the first round of voting, their candidates won outright majorities in 142 constituencies and thus were elected to the Assembly without having to undergo a runoff round. By contrast, the major non-Gaullist parties all suffered setbacks. Receiving its worst drubbing in a decade, the French Left lost 1,250,000 votes to the Gaullists, watched its share of the vote decline from 45% in 1967 to 41%. If the Gaullist trend continued through the final round of balloting last weekend, De Gaulle would command some 280 seats in the 487 seat...
...Communists, it was the worst showing since the 1958 elections, when De Gaulle first returned to power. Though remaining Frances second largest political party, the Communists lost 603,675 voters; their share of the total vote fell from 22.5% to 20%. The Communists' allies, the Federation of the Democratic and Socialist Left, dropped 23%. This setback seriously dented the prestige of the federation's leader, François Mitterrand as a national political figure. The centrist coalition, led by Jacques Duhamel, dropped from 13% of the vote...
Among executives in the entertainment industry, the worst four-letter word in television is CATV, otherwise known as Community Antenna Television, or Cable TV. Companies in the CATV field sell two services: extra channels that are not otherwise available, and interference-free TV pictures in poor reception areas. The CATV operators pick up the signals from TV stations with a high master antenna, and then feed the programs straight to subscribers' television sets through relay cables or microwave connections...
...putting the touch on his wife Claudia ("Honey, let me have a couple of hundred, will you?"), Lee headed for his favorite relaxing spot: the greyhound-racing track in Juárez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso. "I never win anything," he confided. "I'm the worst picker of dogs in the world. I couldn't win a race if there was only one dog in it; he'd probably jump the barrier and disappear." It was, of course, Lee Trevino Night at the track. "They had signs up, and mariachis, and everything," said Trevino...