Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...hoped to win a clutch of electoral votes in the South, capturing at least the four states-Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia-that Dwight Eisenhower carried in both 1952 and 1956. By dimming Nixon's prospects in the South, the Kennedy-Johnson ticket confronted him with a tough problem in electoral-vote arithmetic. Even if Nixon can overcome farmer discontent and carry the farm belt, he cannot win the election unless he can also beat Kennedy in some of the big industrial states east of the Mississippi. To do that despite the Catholic bloc voting for Kennedy that showed...
...searchers were wasting their time. Somewhere along the run, a Soviet fighter had intercepted the plane and shot it down. For the Russians, the kill presented no problem. It was broad daylight. The weather was clear. The plane presumably was flying at its assigned altitude of 12,000 ft., within easy reach of the most obsolete fighter, and on the course other U.S. ferret planes had regularly flown before. But the Russians must have planned carefully. U.S. monitors listening in on Soviet command channels heard no messages transmitted between Russian bases and the plane...
Security Council convened in extraordinary session to consider Lumumba's appeal. To avoid any charge of colonialism, the U.S. had earlier turned down an appeal to send U.S. troops. Behind the scenes, U.S. Delegate Lodge argued that the Congo problem should be solved by Africans, backed a Tunisian resolution that authorized the dispatch...
...corners where things are pretty chilly-- little interludes which one comes upon in surprise, where there is not even a pretense to comedy. The gynecologist's daughter, a girl of fifteen, cannot understand why a longtime friend suddenly prefers lipstick and dresses to swimming and sweatshirts. Not an uncommon problem, one supposes,--yet the expression of fear on the girl's face as she tries to fit together her friend's attitude with her parent's impending divorce indicates that she is seeing it in a peculiarly painful way. "Love," the daughter cries at one point, "I never want...
Knowledge of the situation in Communist China can easily be obtained, Lord Lindsay of Birker commented last week. "But what to do is the hard question," he stated in his talk, "The Problem of Communist China," second in the Thursday afternoon lecture series...