Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The Republicans should have "scared the liver" out of the public, Rusher noted. Instead, Nixon conceded that Kennedy's election would have no ill effects, and lost ground in the subsequent battle to see who could promise the American people the more golden future.
On forign policy, Rusher claimed that the vice-President should have made more use of the "image" of Republican politicians dealing out hard-handed justice to other countries' diplomats.
Rusher asserted, however, that Nixon is still the number one man in the Republican Party and stands a good chance of getting the nomination four years from now. He added that Senator Barry Gold-water, not Nelson Rockefeller, is the number two man.
Exploration of outer space may enable man to make an "end run" around the obstacles to world peace by channeling aggression outward, Eugene R. Rochow, professor of Chemistry, told the Harvard-Radcliffe World Federalists last night.
Noting that public approval greets every new expenditure for the conquest of space, Rochow asked: "Aren't we actually witnessing a phenomenon which has interest, enthusiasm, which can absorb energies and masculine drive, and which could make the question of war passe and old hat?"