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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither Nixon nor New York's Nelson Rockefeller appeared before the Dirksen group. In a statement sent to the committee, Nixon broke his four-month silence on Viet Nam to adopt a position close to Rockefeller's, but with few specifics. Rockefeller's stand came last month in a detailed proposal envisaging step-by-step military disengagement by Hanoi and Washington. Nixon declared: "The war must be ended." He implied that he would treat with the Viet Cong as well as with the North Vietnamese by saying that serious negotiations must include "as many as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE G.O.P.'S REAL MISSION | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

Republican Hour. Inside Convention Hall stands a 19-ft.-high, 500-lb. sculpture that epitomizes the party's high hopes for 1968. From its stainless steel stems hang 24 freeform wooden leaves. Twenty-three of them bear cameo-style carvings of past Presidents, including every Republican elected since Lincoln broke the ice in 1860. The 24th is blank, but the conventioneers, their euphoria heightened by the sun, surf and sand of Miami Beach, are confident that it will some day bear the likeness of whomever the G.O.P. happens to nominate this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KEYNOTE TO OPPORTUNITY | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...subplot about a bunch of male prostitutes. How's that for a takeoff on Belle de Jour? Beautiful. So there they were, Mailer and about 100 of his pals, out on Long Island shooting some scenes and pow!-Norm got into a fight with Actor Lane Smith and broke Smith's jaw. Next day, Mailer and Actor Rip Torn were doing a scene-and pow again! Torn whammed Mailer over the head with a toy hammer, to which Mailer responded by chewing away on Torn's ear. "I was making a movie on a violent subject," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 9, 1968 | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...others--B. B. King, Junior Wells and Buddy Guy, Jack Elliot, and Janis Joplin--a dashing moving beast who hypnotized this viewer at least--but somehow many things fell flat. The spirit of the festival seemed to disintegrate further with each passing day. Saurday afternoon, virtually all the workshops broke up as thousands gave up their individual designs to hear Junior Wells and Buddy Guy; and they were magnificent, but violence was done to the Newport idea, and perhaps more was done as greater numbers began to think in terms of a rock and blues festival for the future...

Author: By Larry A. Estridge, | Title: Newport Folk Festival | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...minor fire broke out in Massachusetts McCarthy Headquarters in Boston early Monday. It began in three wastepaper baskets, but was quickly put out. McCarthy officials charge the fire to arsonists. The damage was minimal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCarthy Names 5 From Faculty To Advisory Unit | 8/6/1968 | See Source »

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