Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unanswered Mail. In his September showdown over the Republican leader's chair with Howard Baker of Tennessee, Dirksen's son-in-law, most of Scott's strength came from a coalition of moderates and liberals; but, he says, his reputation as an aggressive activist "got me the two crucial votes I needed." Dirksen had antagonized some Republicans by his celebrated coziness with Lyndon Johnson and by the highly personalized manner of his leadership. Scott deliberately follows the reverse course. He is committed to making no under-the-table deals with the opposition, and -partly out of personal...
PENN. ranked fourth in the nation, versus HARVARD, ranked third in the nation. They were placards, painted red and blue, advertising what was not only going to be the showdown for the Ivy soccer title, but a preview of the NCAA tournament later this month...
...been in and out of government service for more than a third of this violent century. As everything from ambassador to special consultant and Assistant Secretary of State, he watched how power was actually used in a variety of crises from the 1933 bank holiday to the Cuban missile showdown. Despite the old American distrust of all power, he believes that our current social ills are eliciting new assertions of power, and that its nature should therefore be better understood. His own attack on it is as systematic and undaunted as any book since Machiavelli's The Prince...
...victory, Harvard's second straight evens the Crimson's record at 2-2, and establishes a showdown between tough Dartmouth next Saturday at Cambridge...
They know very well which side would win in a showdown with the Red Army...