Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CIVIL RIGHTS. In a brief plank, the platform promises "full implementation and faithful execution of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and all other civil rights statutes" and "improvements of civil rights statutes adequate to changing needs of our times." It commits the G.O.P. to helping "assure equal opportunity and a good education for all." At the same time, the platform takes advantage of the burning issue popularly known as "bussing" by placing the G.O.P. on record as "opposing federally-sponsored 'inverse discrimination,' whether by the shifting of jobs, or the abandonment of neighborhood schools, for reasons...
...Arizona, riding a palomino in a Prescott parade and looking as though he had been born to the saddle, bellying up to an Elks club bar and buying drinks for the house, hosing the vegetation (which consists in considerable part of cactus) on his Phoenix spread. Then, after a brief trip to Washington, it was on to San Francisco in that same relaxed mood...
...told, Scranton's San Francisco operation would cost some $200,000. But all the money and effort somehow seemed wasted. In the brief four weeks of his campaign, Scranton had covered some 20,000 miles, visited 25 states-including a second trip last week to Illinois, where he boarded a five-car Illinois Central Railroad train for an old-fashioned whistle-stop tour through cornfield country. But he made no notable impact, and in Springfield, Mayor Nelson Howarth sadly summed up the situation when he said to the Governor...
Higher Earnings. Some brokers look for a brief slump before the next surge, but few think that the market is overpriced. Two-thirds of the Dow-Jones stocks are selling below their 1956-61 bull market high, although profits are now much higher. The Dow-Jones shares are selling on average for only 191 times earnings, well down from 23 times earnings in early...
...delivery is no help to this scene). At one point his malformed hand spastically grabs his cross and must be pried off with the other. While Hastings is being beheaded he gnaws on a chicken leg. After Tyrrel reports carrying out his killings as ordered, Richard puts on a brief weeping fit. And on the eve of battle he sits caressing his deformed leg with his deformed hand. Vocally, Watson does laudably on the whole, though he should not throw away such a crucial line as "I'm not in a giving vein today...