Word: deadlock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convention. But even there, the Democrats were contriving to provide some suspense. Thanks to Humphrey's stumbling performance in recent weeks, doubts were multiplying about him as a candidate-and as a potential President. Rumors circulated in Chicago and Washington that if deadlock developed, delegates would draft Senator Edward Kennedy, who emerged from 21 months of seclusion to deliver an impressive speech in which he rejected the idea of retiring from public life because "there is no safety in hiding." He also vowed "to carry forward that special commitment to justice, to excellence, to courage" that distinguished his three...
Meet Snik Dixon. Rockefeller figures that without the leaners, Nixon has 550 delegates (needed to nominate: 667). His strategy is to avert a first-ballot Nixon victory. This forces Rocky into an unspoken alliance with Reagan, who still dreams of leapfrogging a Nixon-Rockefeller deadlock to the nomination. Rockefeller's emphasis on the Wallace threat could redound, however, to Reagan's benefit among Southern Republicans. Southern delegates for Rocky are as rare as square marbles, but a fair number might go for Reagan on the theory that his conservatism might be an effective alternative to Wallace. When Rockefeller's aides...
Still, Nasser's talks in the Kremlin, which came only a week after Jarring made a similar visit to Moscow, may presage some kind of break, however modest, in the Arab-Israeli deadlock. Though Nasser went to Russia partly to seek more Soviet arms, the Russians seem to be chafing at the high cost of such aid, and have lately even proposed an embargo on further arms shipments to Middle Eastern countries. It may just be that they are out to convince Nasser that his future depends on being a bit more pliable...
Persistent Deadlock. The striking members of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers left their jobs June 21, demanding an 18% pay increase spread over two years. Backed by a federal conciliation board, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority offered a 12% raise, to an average $3.48 (Canadian) an hour. At the first negotiations since the walk-out began, the union cut its demand to 15%, but the deadlock persisted. Ottawa fears that a big settlement could set off inflationary wage increases, as happened after the seaway workers won a two-year, 30% pay boost...
...wrangling with Pinar Gote, who has a monopoly over travel to the Galapagos, and two high Ecuadoran Air Force officers, produced a viable compromise. Sulloway credited an introductory letter from President Pusey and the energetic intervention of an American working for the Ecuadoran National Tourist Agency with breaking the deadlock...