Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cities away from Kennedy. Most of the big, pivotal states where the election will be decided are still no cinches (see box next page). Barring an unforeseen crisis at home or abroad, or a dramatic change in the political weather, the 1960 political campaign should go down to the line as the closest, most hair-raising race since 1916 though in the end the electoral margin may be wide...
...primaries and the convention, Bobby hustled down to Washington. The machine that he and Jack had built had proved its mettle in a string of primary victories and at the convention. In the primaries the old, outmoded political organizations were bulldozed aside, the old, skeptical politicians brought into line or surrounded. But would the stream lined political harvester that had worked so efficiently and winningly in the furrows of Wisconsin and West Virginia and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena be adequate in the back forty of the entire nation...
...Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon joined in: "The eyes of the struggling people of the newly developing countries are upon us. They are looking in particular to the leading creditor countries, especially in continental Western Europe,* for an effort more in line with their capacities. For the safety and progress of the free world we must see to it that their hopes in this regard...
...Delivered from a single page of handwritten notes, the speech made plain that Castro is an exceptionally talented demagogue in his own right. Passages on the ills of colonialism and the consequences of underdevelopment struck home with many Latin American delegates, but Castro's 100% line-up with the Reds hit home even harder. Said Chile's delegation chief, Daniel Schweitzer: "Castro exposed himself in all ways." Among the Latin Americans, only the delegation from Mexico applauded him, with occasional support from Venezuela and Bolivia. But with Khrushchev cuing the applause, pudgy palms pounding high over his head...
...were served on the government-controlled Cubana Airlines. A Miami advertising agency, trying to collect an unpaid $285,000 bill for tourist advertising, obtained two of the writs; the third was obtained by a Cubana stockholder in Florida concerned over the Castro government's progressive nationalization of the line's assets. Actually planes flying to the U.N. on government business are entitled to diplomatic immunity, and the U.S. State Department tried to advise Cubana how to void the writs, but the company ignored the advice...