Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...clients. The polling is carried out mostly by college students, who pick the names at random from metropolitan Los Angeles' five phone books. Over the years, Editor Joseph Quinn has come to expect about 1,500 replies out of 3,000 calls. But this year things went wildly wrong. C.N.S.'s results in last week's poll on Nixon v. Kennedy, plus two local ballot questions...
...Richard Nixon discovered that he was not only running against Jack Kennedy but against a crippling opponent named hemolytic Staphylococcus aureus. A few days after he banged his left knee on an automobile door during his quick campaign trip to Greensboro, N.C., he began to sense that something was wrong. The knee swelled, but instead of going to a doctor, Nixon just bandaged the leg himself. Ten days after the accident he turned himself in to Walter Reed General Hospital for tests. A doctor drained off a sample of fluid from the knee for laboratory analysis, discovered the presence...
...Carney, whose time of 20.6 tied the 1956 Olympic record. The U.S. had not lost the event since 1928. After plodding home dead-last in sixth place, California's Ray Norton admitted that the pressure in Rome was just too much for him: "Nothing is wrong with me physically. I'm just tied up like a knot inside...
Long Shoals, which makes yarn for weavers, has suffered no loss of custom ers because of its move. Explains Buck: "Most people forget we sell a lot of stuff to Japan. A man told me I was wrong to do it. I asked him why. He said. 'We fought a war with those people.' I said we fought two wars with Germany, and I lost a brother in the last one, and you bought a boiler from them. He said, 'That's different.' So I told him, I'm look ing ahead, not backwards...
...well-fed peasant town. It is the focus of their tront-lme dreams, a city of dazzling peacetime riches, of sunny, soft-bodied girls strolling along the Corso. In entering Drohitz. exults Gravedigger Adam Ember of the army's medical corps "we belonged to life once more." Dead Wrong. Ember, the passive tattered Everyman of both novels is dead wrong At first. Drohitz girls and Drohitz gilt shops make the troops royally wel come. City fathers entertain the officers at an orgiastic banquet that precedes a midnight trip to the Mashinka Drohitz' spectacular red-light district. There less...