Word: virtually
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...refused to make any special pleas, noting airily that "when the Negroes know my record, they'll come along." They never did. He yearned for the support of César Chávez, a Bobby Kennedy supporter and leader of California migrant workers who has become a virtual messiah to thousands of Mexican Americans. The Senator did in fact have long talks with Chávez. But he could not bring himself to ask for the labor leader's help. He only observed mildly that "we hope you will be with...
Real Threat. The Soviet push is backed up by a fast-growing merchant fleet. A virtual nonentity 15 years ago, the Red fleet now numbers 1,350 oceangoing ships totaling 10 million tons, ranks sixth in the world, after Liberia (actually a "flag of convenience" for ships of many nations), Britain, the U.S., Norway and Japan. At its current million-ton-a-year growth rate, the U.S.S.R. could well be at the top by the early 1970s...
...Salt one midmorning last week, the townspeople paid scant heed. Though Salt is only 13 miles from King Hussein's palace in Amman, the incursion was not unusual. Jordan's air force was destroyed in last year's Six-Day War, and Israel has had the virtual freedom of Jordanian skies ever since. This time, however, the Israeli overflight was far from routine. Angered by daily raids on Israeli-occupied territory by Jordan-based Arab commandos, Israel had decided to make use of its air superiority to strike back. El Fatah, the largest and most aggressive...
...what interest him. He was one of the first to note the Republican Party's switch to a more pragmatic, less contentious brand of politics after the disaster of 1964. He was among the earliest to spot the decay of Lyndon Johnson's consensus politics and the virtual collapse of the Democratic National Committee. Rather than complain, as they might have in the case of other reporters, Democratic politicians privately thanked Broder for pointing out their delinquencies. "Seventy-five percent of covering the political beat," says Broder, "is the ability to sense when and where a situation...
Those qualities saw Czechoslovakia through an extraordinary week of showdown with the Soviet Union. With mounting pressures, including a virtual ultimatum to the Czechoslovak nation, Russia did everything that it could, short of sending tanks to halt and reverse the reform program led by Party Boss Alexander Dubček. At week's end, armed intervention was still a possibility. But under Dubček's shrewd direction, little Czechoslovakia stood up and talked back, reaffirming its commitment to a new form of democracy-cum-socialism and defiantly refusing to retreat. If Czechoslovakia gets away with it, Communism...