Word: contender
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bills continued to lag. Two days later, the Senate made it clear that it would not act this year on his proposal for a lottery procedure for the draft. The bill passed the House, but Democratic leaders in the Senate want to reform the whole Selective Service Act and contend that this requires more time. The issue apparently will reemerge next year, but Nixon need not wait. He can institute certain reforms, short of a lottery system, by executive decree...
...assassination touched off false stories that Lyndon Johnson had immediately succumbed to a heart attack. Conversely, ambiguous evidence of a public figure's death will almost certainly provoke rumors that he is alive. Some people believe that Hitler is still at large in Argentina or Paraguay; others contend that J.F.K. carries on a vegetable-like existence in a well-guarded private hospital. Long after his death, many of his fans believed that he was alive, but hopelessly disfigured, in a hospital somewhere...
...troubled enough to come to psychiatrists and social workers and have found them no worse adjusted than many heterosexuals. Nonetheless, when 300 New York homosexuals were polled several years ago, only 2% said that they would want a son of theirs to be a homosexual. Homophile activists contend that there would be more happy homosexuals if society were more compassionate; still, for the time being at least, there is a savage ring of truth to the now famous line from The Boys in the Band: "Show me a happy homosexual, and I'll show you a gay corpse...
...return of linebacker Gary Farneti will strengthen the defense, but the Crimson will be facing a ground threat superior to any it has been confronted with this fall. And even if Harvard can stop the Indians' running game, it will still have to contend with the Big Green air attack, led by quarterbacks Jim Chasey and Bill Koenig...
...this shifting scene, a bold new entrepreneur has appeared: the new-product specialist, the privateer who will find or develop a product for any company willing to pay. These specialists contend that most U.S. corporate managers, for all their talk about market research, still think more in terms of product than consumer. The privateers are usually young veterans of advertising or marketing who work on ideas supplied by clients or develop and sell products on their own. More than 20 independent new-product firms are at work on projects for General Foods, National Biscuit, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers, Continental...