Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, September 28 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). U.S. Olympic men's and women's gymnastic trials from Long Beach and Los Angeles, Calif., and the roaring Southern 500 Stock Car Championship from Darlington...
...Mount Lycabettos is an enormous neon sign that outshines even the gleaming, floodlit marble of the Parthenon atop the Acropolis. The sign spells out the Greek word NAÍ in letters 30 ft. high. All over Greece, on walls, buses, taxis, telephone poles, billboards, farm carts, beach huts and whitewashed windmills in the Aegean isles, posters urge: NAÍ. Next week 5 million Greeks will vote NAÍ (yes) or ÓXI (no) in a referendum on a new constitution drafted by the military junta that has ruled the country since it seized power 17 months ago. Even the most...
...Palm Beach...
When Richard Nixon lifted the Governor of Maryland from a position of relative obscurity to the second spot on the Republican Party's tick et last month, Spiro Theodore Agnew reacted with becoming modesty. "Spiro Agnew," he told reporters in Miami Beach, word." By "is last not week, exactly a Nixon's running household mate was well on his way to making quite a name for himself. There was considerable debate, however, over what sort of name it was and how it would affect the G.O.P. ticket's chances in the 1968 presidential race...
Similar "bitching periods," as one politician has termed them, have borne little fruit in other years. But this year, says defeated Presidential Candidate George McGovern of South Dakota, may be different. "The public was alternately bored by the emptiness of Miami Beach and disgusted by the disorder and violence of Chicago," he noted. "Both of these conventions told just about all there is to tell about what's wrong with the convention system itself." If the public dismay is reflected in Congress, a proposal like Nelson's might well have a fighting chance for passage...