Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...President's party almost always loses seats in off-year elections, few Presidents facing an opposition Congress have had a better opportunity. Of the 35 seats up for election, 25 are now held by Democrats, and Nixon needs a net gain of seven for the G.O.P. to take control. To achieve his goal, he has personally put together a line-up of nine candidates, eight of them House Republicans, to run for the Senate. The President's men and their prospects...
...introduced by Premier Aleksei Kosygin in 1965 and soon quietly abandoned by the conservative Brezhnev? Those reforms called for decentralization, increased authority for factory and regional managers, and careful use of market mechanisms. Or should the Kremlin move in the opposite direction by imposing even stricter discipline and central control...
Spectacular Rise. In recent years, however, venereal disease has been making a comeback. In 1965, Dr. William J. Brown of the U.S. Center for Disease Control declared that an estimated 650,000 Americans under 20 were annually contracting either syphilis or gonorrhea. Reported cases of syphilis in the past year have risen by 55% in New Jersey, 30% in New York City. Last week Dr. James McKenzie-Pollock of the American Social Health Association reported that there has been a "spectacular rise" in syphilis in the past five months and called for national emergency action to meet the problem...
...about differences between the two versions. Still, one of the charms of the Alaskan legislators is that they have a particularly close relationship with their constituents. Since most Alaskans were either burned or scared by the boom's failure, both the lawmakers and the Governor are now determined to control the state's future...
...started at the top and stayed there, but doing so took an iron spirit. At 27, two years after the death of his father Edsel, he led a family coup that forced his aged grandfather to relinquish leadership of what was a sorely troubled company. Then Ford wrested real control from Director Harry Bennett and his crew of hired thugs in a series of tense confrontations, during which he was in some physical danger. For a while he felt it necessary to carry a gun to his office...