Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Kenneth Wilson, the Christian Herald's executive editor, the octogenarian and the guests heard a eulogy of affection tempered with humor: "If there's a banner to be waved, he'll wave it. If he doesn't have an opinion, he'll get one while you are waiting. When everyone knows it is safer to let the dust settle first, often as not he is helping to create the dust. He has the uncanny knack 99% of the time of being found, when the dust does settle, on the side of the saints...
...Cleveland, Goldwater reiterated his position against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "No person," he said, "whether government official or private citizen, should violate the rights of some in order to further the rights of others. We are being asked to destroy the rights of some under the false banner of promoting the 'civil rights' of others." At week's end Goldwater wended his way West, turned his guns on the Johnson Administration's handling of foreign policy, which, he said, has left "our great alliances in shambles" while "American prestige has been sinking slowly...
...Hugh Scott carries the banner of moderate, progressive, forward-looking Republicanism into this campaign. He knows the most about the liberal Republican cause. He represents the high tradition of enlightened and progressive thinking in the Republican Party."--U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) speaking at a testimonial dinner for Hugh Scott at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, October 20, 1964. Sen. Scott is at his side...
...almost seemed unfair. Time after time last week, the Japanese Self Defense Forces Band blared The Star-Spangled Banner to signal yet another U.S. victory in the 1964 Olympic Games -so often that foreign spectators and athletes caught themselves whistling its familiar strains. "But it's not The Star-Spangled Banner," an Italian insisted defensively. "It's from the first act of Madame Butterfly." At that, it did seem a little reminiscent of Lieut. Pinkerton's visit to Japan. Over the first seven days of the XVIII Olympiad, smashing 10 world and 18 Olympic records...
...Field, "it looked like the whole world was going to hell." And there were, of course, inevitable dislocations. The Denver Post, which had treated Recent Visitor Lyndon Johnson to a Page One portrait in color, decided to do the same for Barry Goldwater, and planned on having an appropriate banner headline. Only Barry's picture survived. The banner went to another sort of politician altogether: RUSS "RETIRE" KHRUSHCHEV...