Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hubert refused to be drawn into arguments that might underscore his "foreign" background. In Houston, a reporter asked what he would do as Vice President if he had to break a tie vote in the Senate on a bill to slash the oil-and-gas depletion allowance. Said Hubert, who has regularly voted to cut the allowance: "I would vote as the President established the policy." It so happens that Lyndon is an old defender of the depletion allowance. In Arkansas, Humphrey brushed aside questions about Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' segregationist stands. "I didn't come down here...
...slacks by picturing them worn by a tiger, and another manufacturer of slacks, Thomson Co. of New York, shows a tiger skin with a girl's head. Fabergé has added a "Tigress" nail polish and lipstick to its "Tigress" perfume, which is advertised with a tiger-stripe background...
Sunday, August 23: This is a day of background activity. The Credentials Committee reaches agreement on the Alabama seating dispute but postpones consideration of the Mississippi question until Monday...
Sunday, August 23: This is a day of background activity. The Credentials Committee reaches agreement on the Alabama seating dispute but postpones consideration of the Mississippi question until Monday...
Carroll Baker is also something new in sex bombs in that she can act quite respectably; but her background at least has the familiar, tempestuous sound of some of the biographies of her predecessors. Her father is a farmer manque who now runs an appliance store in Pittsburgh. "Our household had much strife," Carroll says. "If I ever write an autobiography, I will start at 18. I don't like to concentrate on things that are morbid. My parents gave me nothing spiritual or ethical or moral-no set of standards by which to live." When she went...