Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P. Senatorial Campaign Committee?the platform from which Barry Goldwater soared to prominence. Hatfield is also believed to harbor presidential ambitions. Reagan denied having any presidential plans, but did hint that he might go to the convention as a favorite son if there is "a need to avoid a divisive
...Yorker sentenced to life imprisonment is "civilly dead"-his family can even dispense with his name. Mark Fein was a respectable Manhattan container manufacturer who secretly consorted with gamblers and prostitutes. Last year Fein received a 30-year-to-life sentence for murdering his bookie to avoid paying a $23,898 World Series bet. To shield her three children from the seamy publicity, Fein's wife Nancy sought to resume her maiden name of Nahon. Permission granted, ruled Judge George Starke last week. Not only has Fein lost all civil rights, from suing to voting to making contracts...
...West Point, Prince Erie is vaguely historical. Probably that is the only point of comparison. Treason, produced at the Loeb two years ago, met with a blast of hostile critical wind. Some people even speculated that the Loeb administration, learning a quick lesson from Treason's fate, would avoid producing this year's Anderson play...
...undertake that fight, but as associate director of the Kennedy Institute he was not about to do it and thereby jeopardize the Institute's program. Yet, there was more to his belligerence than simple disagreement. There were the efforts of the last three weeks, and the frantic attempts to avoid embarrassment for McNamara. Three weeks of futility. Frank knew that this time he had been beaten...
...case they had a special persuasiveness. McNamara engendered hatred as a symbol of the Vietnam war; his stiff personal style alienated people even more. Ansara assured Gordon that most SDS members would insist on some sort of demonstration. Nevertheless, he simultaneously pledged to do everything he could to avoid a disruption of the Secretary's private sessions with students. He was not enthralled by the meetings, but neither was he convinced that they were entirely useless. Certainly, they could do no harm and would not spoil SDS's plans...