Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...time the third round of the television debates went on the air-with Vice President Richard Nixon speaking from Los Angeles and Senator John Kennedy from Manhattan-both candidates were tightlipped. Through the week they had been lobbing charges at each other on the Quemoy-Matsu question stirred up in Debate No. 2. In Albuquerque, Nixon warned that Kennedy's proposed abandonment of the two Chinese offshore islands would be "the road to war, the road to surrender. We must not give up an inch of territory." At Knott's Berry Farm, near Long Beach, Calif., he added...
...session seemed something of an anticlimax after the first two, and ratings showed that audiences were declining-down to 60 million on the third from 73 million on the first. Physically, Nixon looked in fine form, and he was forceful in his replies. Who won? Increasingly, people seemed to be judging the debating as theatrical performances, and this time partisans of each seemed to think their candidate had won. But the rest of the world had only begun to listen in on the Quemoy-Matsu issue. On Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's spokesmen angrily denounced Kennedy, promised...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., the day after the third TV debate, Vice President Nixon made his major foreign-policy speech of the campaign. "It is time to launch a great new effort," he said, "an all-out offensive for peace and freedom." Key point in organizing the offensive: a series of conferences. Items...
...used again). "That's a good sign," says Bagwell. "Two years ago they dropped our pamphlets like snow." It is not uncommon for a worker to sidle up with a wink, fold back his lapel and expose a concealed Bagwell button. Even Democratic leaders figure that one-third of Wayne County's workers will vote for Bagwell...
...assassination last week indicated that the threat to parliamentarianism has never been eradicated. It was third in a series of attempts made on eminent political figures since last June. The first assassin, attacking the life of a moderate Socialist leader, had no relations with a rightist group, and except for his hatred of the Zengakuren, he committed his act in a schizophrenic fit. The second attacker, aiming at Kishi, had no intention of killing him, but wanted merely to punish the prime minister for having "clumsily handled the problems of the Liberal Democratic Party." The third incident differed from...