Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solve its three major challenges-the endless war, the plague-ridden cities, the troubled economy-and they are tempted to cast about for new leadership. If Lyndon Johnson is to win renomination, he will have to convince them in the months ahead that he has the policies to control the crises, not vice versa...
...Unless it was beyond my control," General William Childs Westmoreland has said proudly, "I have never left any job that I hadn't finished." Last week, his task in Viet Nam far from finished, Westy got the word that he would be coming home to replace General Harold Johnson in July as Army Chief of Staff...
...demanded, among other things, freedom of the press, creation of additional political parties, and a crackdown on the widespread government corruption that was uncovered in the trials of the military brass. Such reforms would, of course, be difficult for Nasser to undertake with out running the risk of losing control of his tightly centralized government. Even so, Nasser, who last week went with other officials to pray in a Cairo mosque, promised that he would appear on television within a week or so to explain the next stage in his self-improvement program for Egypt...
...primary in New York's history, Democratic Congressmen, State Senators, assemblymen, county chairmen, and party hacks are asking themselves the agonizing question: do I stick with Lyndon Johnson or do I throw my support to Robert Kennedy? A handful a day is switching, and it appears that Kennedy will control slightly more than two-thirds of the state's 190 delegates to the Chicago convention. (McCarthy will be lucky if he gets any delegates...
...more than three million registered Democratic voters simply do not count for much in the June 18 delegate primary. In theory, they should control 188 of the 190 delegate votes--since they elect three delegates in each of the state's 41 Congressional districts and also choose the 300 state committeemen who then fill 65 more delegate seats when they meet in Albany. In theory, only the two seats given to national committeemen are pre-ordained. In practice, however, the delegation is being shaped right now in the proverbial back rooms...