Word: setbacks
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...Moreover, Dewey was beaten in 1944 by Franklin Roosevelt, a wartime hero of incomparable stature, and many people felt that Dewey should have another chance. Again, such is not the case with Goldwater. So Complete. In a broader sense, the conservative cause whose championship Goldwater assumed suffered a crippling setback. For a number of years, the conservative and moderate wings of the G.O.P. had taken increasingly divergent paths, with the moderates dominating. Conservatives cried out constantly that if they were but given the chance, the G.O.P. would not only be stronger under their leadership, but would win decisively. This year...
Despite a respectable record on civil rights, Percy will probably lose by as much as 9-1 in Chicago's heavily Negro wards. This is an especially serious setback because 200,000 Negro votes have been registered in the past year. Chicago Negroes have traditionally voted Democratic, and Percy's inability to offer them an attractive alternative to Kerner in a year when Negroes are generally wary of Republicans apparently dooms him to a smaller fraction of the vote than he had anticipated...
There were also losers, of course. While American Tobacco and Liggett & Myers forged ahead with sizable earnings increases, Lorillard slipped in nine-month earnings despite a third-quarter gain and R. J. Reynolds suffered a 12% setback in profits. Strikes caused a sharp 71% break in Kennecott's profits, and Chrysler sputtered into a 50% decline because of unusually high changeover costs. These were the exceptions, but the good news contained a dividend of hope for them too. The current quarter, which is usually among the year's most profitable for many corporations, is sure to be even...
...Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's son Maurice, who was Economic Secretary to the Treasury, lost in Halifax; Postmaster-General Reginald Bevins was beaten in Liverpool; Health Minister Anthony Barber fell at Doncaster; and Geoffrey Rippon, Minister of Works, was defeated at Norwich. But Labor had a bad local setback too. Patrick Gordon Walker, slated to be Foreign Secretary, was beaten in his constituency of Smethwick, a part of Birmingham where the race issue is raging because of heavy immigration by West Indians, Pakistanis and Sikhs from India, turning whole neighborhoods into slums. Because the Laborites originally opposed Tory-sponsored...
...international scene, Berlin was a serious defeat. Khrushchev evidently thought he could force the Allies out of the city with a series of threats following hard on the Sputnik successes in space. He was forced to back down. The Cuba confrontation of October 1962 was an even more paralyzing setback. And within the Communist camp, the Premier's handling of relations with China had allowed a dispute to swell into uncomradely hostility. He had planned to stage a climactic meeting of the world's Communist parties in Moscow this December to condemn the Chinese, but the fraternal parties dragged their...