Word: forsworn
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...county chairmen. He is a close third in polls of registered Democrats (after Muskie and Edward Kennedy). But his 1968 defeat hurts badly, he is probably a too familiar face, and his nomination might touch off a schismatic fourth-party movement to the left. EDWARD KENNEDY. He has repeatedly forsworn any notion of running, although he has stopped short of a Sherman statement. He has made none of the quiet moves of a man who, despite public coyness, means to become a candidate. He almost certainly will not enter any primaries-but in eight states his name, as a prominently...
...Then he became an investment banker until signing on as Nixon's chief fund raiser in 1968; he raised $34 million. Stans' main concession to contemporary concerns has been to give up his favorite hobby -big-game hunting-for the duration; his wife Kathleen has also forsworn her collection of leopard and cheetah coats...
...Freaks, are the most visible; it is they who have blended the counterculture and conservative religion. Many trace their beginnings to the 1967 flower era in San Francisco, but there were almost simultaneous stirrings in other areas. Some, but by no means all, affect the hippie style; others have forsworn it as part of their new lives...
...Fidel Castro's disgust, however, the Russians have forsworn attempts to stir up revolution in the hemisphere in favor of the so-called via pacifica-or peaceful way. That policy has been paying off handsomely, notably in Chile, whose Moscow-bankrolled Communist Party backed Marxist Dr. Salvador Allende, winner of a plurality in the recent presidential election. If he is voted in by the Chilean Congress next month as expected, he would become the first Communist-supported candidate for President to win a free election...
...attempts to control inflation and simultaneously prevent severe recession, the Nixon Administration has used up most of its options. President Nixon has forsworn not only wage-price controls but also any "jawboning" intervention in individual pay and price decisions. Federal pay increases precipitated by the mail strike are wiping out the budget surplus that he had counted on to help restrain prices. In an election year, he can hardly call for higher taxes in order to frustrate inflation. Nor can he easily request lower taxes or much higher federal spending if recession seems the greater danger. Thus, unless he changes...