Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...will not be formal debates, but rather press conferences, with both men replying to each question.* The early rounds provided opportunities for measuring off the candidates as tacticians. Nixon kept off the stage as much as possible during the short session of Congress, did his work behind the scenes. Instead of trying to beat the Democrats at their own welfare-legislation game, he showed his tactical skill by concentrating on balking the Democratic program. With Dwight Eisenhower's help, he welded the outnumbered Republican band in the Senate into a disciplined defensive force, not strong enough to push legislation...
...have run to Nixon's side, but Maggie runs her own show, with her own organization in Maine, and pays little heed to the regular state machine or the National Committee. She turned her back on the Republican Convention last July, chose to mend her fences in Maine instead...
...Belgium's King Baudouin, the crowd suddenly hoisted signs reading "Fascist"' and "Dictator," burst into the distinctive "whoop, whoop, whoop" that is the Congolese version of a boo. Seemingly undismayed by their jeers -and by the fact that his summit conference had attracted mainly minor bureaucrats instead of the 20 heads of state he had invited-Lumumba strode to the stage of the Palace of Culture to cry to his guests: "Gentlemen, you are now making contact with Congolese reality...
Chaika car that would have been exportable, instead turned over the whole amount to Moscow's dilapidated Baptist Church, only Protestant church in the Soviet capital. It was a gift, said he, in memory of his grandfather, a Baptist minister in Texas. Later, amidst more teary farewells at a Moscow airport, he flew off for home on the same plane with Barbara Powers, wife of one of the least popular Americans in Russia...
...next summer, or fall at the latest, Americans will be able to take their polio vaccination in three month-apart swallows of live-virus vaccine instead of being dependent on the hypodermic needle for injections of the Salk killed-virus vaccine. Last week Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service said he had been convinced that it is now possible to manufacture a live-virus vaccine "suitable for use in the U.S." Whether this unexpectedly abrupt decision was the result of mounting evidence of safety or of pressure on the Government by live-virus advocates...