Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, however, said that no settlement had been reached with the Brandeis administration. Black spokesman Randal C. Bailey said, "We intend to continue our struggle at Brandeis to gain effective control of the Afro-American Studies Department to be established here...
...Bailey then pointed the way to new tactics. "Unless significant changes are made we shall refuse to participate in courses offered dealing with black people because such courses have little validity in a university which systematically and consistently excludes recognition of the legitimacy of black thought," Bailey said...
...unusual act was not, of course, to gain another superfluous electoral vote for Richard Nixon. In the last election, the fear was that George Wallace would deprive both the other candidates of an electoral majority, leaving him free to decide a winner by bargaining with his votes. By challenging Bailey's vote, O'Hara and Muskie hoped, in the latter's words, to "underscore the necessity for a complete reform of the system by constitutional amendment...
...Bailey is the sixth elector in U.S. history to defy his party. The others: Pennsylvanian Samuel Miles, chosen as a Federalist, voted for Thomas Jefferson rather than John Adams in 1796; former Senator William Plumer of New Hampshire voted for John Quincy Adams rather than James Monroe, 1820; Preston Parks of Tennessee voted for Strom Thurmond instead of Harry Truman, 1948; W. F. Turner of Alabama voted for a circuit judge instead of Adlai Stevenson, 1956; Henry D. Irwin of Oklahoma ignored his pledge to Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd...
...ranks as TV's most effective salesman since the heyday of Arthur Godfrey. Besides appearing with Carson, McMahon hosts his own daily game show (Snap Judgment), and is getting ready to appear in his second movie, The Killing Time, in which he will play an F. Lee Bailey kind of lawyer defending a pathological killer. This week he moves up to No. 1 for a day as executive producer, director and master of ceremonies of the Inaugural Gala at Washington's National Armory...