Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Except for the most predictably partisan of U.S. newspapers, publishers in 1960 seemed to be having a harder time than usual in declaring their choices in 1960. Nixon inevitably won the most editorial support, though Kennedy was doing better than Adlai Stevenson in 1956. One remarkable phenomenon, on either side, was the qualified enthusiasm. Papers that chose Nixon often did so out of dedi cation to conservative domestic policies more than to any heartwarming tributes to Nixon himself. Kennedy enthusiasts were just as apt to temper their praise with good words for Nixon's policies and his experience...
...term for Franklin Roosevelt after opposing him for Terms II and III, came out for Kennedy in a limp and stodgy statement: "In the field of foreign policy . . . despite their sharp dispute over Quemoy and Matsu, the two candidates are in substantial agreement . . . But Senator Kennedy's approach . . . except for his momentary blunder suggesting intervention in Cuba . . . seems to us to be more reasoned, less emotional, more flexible, less doctrinaire, more imaginative, less negative." On domestic policy a Democratic President will have greater influence over an almost certainly Democratic Congress. "We believe that with the prestige of an election...
...Washington, so the story goes, Republican top strategists huddled, and all were glum indeed-except one. "I'm sure we'll win, there's no doubt about it," he enthused. Everyone wanted to know the reason for his confidence. Answer: "I have a deep and abiding faith in the fundamental bigotry of the American people...
...News. To meet the emergency, the U.N.'s World Health Organization began rushing in hastily recruited medics, and by last week 22 Red Cross teams, totaling 104 doctors and nurses, were in the Congo. Fifty hospitals have been reopened, and each province except rebellious Katanga now has its own U.N. squad of public health engineers, water sanitation experts and epidemiologists...
...down to 1.6 mm. at its tip. The catheter is first inserted in the patient's brachial artery, inside the elbow of the right arm, and maneuvered up the arm into the chest, until its passage is stopped by the aortic valve, directly above the heart. Except for a dull ache in the elbow (local anesthesia is administered) the operation is painless Because the arterial nerves are insensitive to the catheter's presence...