Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Most pollsters see the Kennedy-Nixon race as about as close as a boy with an ice-cream cone, and most are as undecided on the outcome as that huge group of "undecideds" who confuse the statistics...
...jolting blows. First came the flare-up of the religion issue. Mindful that a massive Roman Catholic shift to Kennedy in the big-electoral-vote Northern states could swing the election, Nixon gave orders down through the ranks that the religion issue was not to be mentioned. But a group of 150 Protestant clergymen and laymen, headed by New York's Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) met in Washington to toss a headline-making anti-Catholic manifesto into the campaign (TIME, Sept. 19). The manifesto led to Kennedy's dramatic confrontation with the Houston...
Explaining the situation in his neighborhood, James Provinzano said, "there are a group of characters in my neighborhood. I pass by them on the street, and I know I'm different--I'm going to college. They can have their gang wars...
...three female members of the group, including the vice-Chairman of the Communist Youth Organization for the entire Soviet Union, will stay at Comstock and Moors Hall during the seven days they spend in the Boston area. The men are expected to be quartered in Conant Hall...
During their attempt to become familiar with the entire Boston area the group will tour a meat packing plant and lunch with the workers. Inclusion of the plant followed a complaint from last year's group of Soviet students that they had never come in contact with the "American proletariat...