Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number John asked the audience to clap their hands in time. Nodding toward the royal box he added: 'Those upstairs just rattle your jewelry.'" They think we're here to entertain them. Well we are, but fuck them anyway...
...statement that goes beyond the routine demands of vote gathering. One such was his radio address last week on the office of the presidency. Delivered over about 500 NBC and CBS stations, it was one of the best speeches either candidate has made so far during the campaign (see box...
...impressive test was part of a program sponsored by the Air Transport Association to clear the fog from the nation's airports. Known as a Fog-Sweep, the big machine is actually a mobile blower with a 100-ft. flexible plastic tube that pops up, jack-in-the-box style, once its fan starts whirling. Out of the tube comes a spray of chemicals that are close kin to ordinary household detergents. And 70% of the time, they can "wash" away enough fog to let planes fly in and out of closed-down airports...
...Mayor John Lindsay drifted into the conversation, and Deloros said, "If Lindsay can walk the streets of Harlem and Brooklyn, why can't our mayor come down here and talk to us? He's just a few blocks over there," she said with a gesture sweeping past a juke box toward the dustry rear of the rectangular room. "He really should come here and see the people," she said, "That's what keeps him in office--the people...
...juke box began to play James Brown and a teenaged girl who had been sitting at the end of the bar danced a couple of steps as she walked out. It was becoming hard to hear, but Deloros meditated out loud for a moment on the Sunset's future: "You take the people's pleasures away from them and then you have violence. Nobody wants violence." She paused and her gaze roamed over the rows of liquor bottles behind the bar, coming to rest on fresh pictures of John and Robert Kennedy on either side of Martin Luther King...