Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he can get more Republican Congressmen elected in'November than Nixon. He reminded audiences of Congressmen and Senators that in 1966 many Republicans lost tight races in urban and industrial areas, where Rocky claims great pulling power. On his lapel, the candidate wore a blue-and-white button with the number 218 on it; that, he explained, was the number of Republicans it would take to control the House. "I'm trying to bring home to them that I can help get it," he said...
...concluded that there was more money to be made in investment than in litigation. In 1870, he opened his own bank, T. Mellon & Sons. Tall, thin and austere as a Grant Wood painting, he wore high starched collars when lesser men had long since moved to sack suits and button-down collars, read Greek philosophers for pleasure, but calculatingly lunched at the Duquesne Club to discuss the mortgage market...
Practically everyone, it seemed, wore a blue and white McCarthy button and talked in excited tones about "how we did it." National politics just didn't seem like the preserve of a few game-playing campus politicoes any more...
Princeton's effect on other campuses was strong. Just as Midwestern types had once adopted the button-down shirt and the rep tie from the Ivy League, they now began to adopt the sit-in as life style...
...true mark of the '43 alumnus, however, was an Austrailan hat, with its brim folded up on one side and pinned with a button reading: "Meet the Old Campaigner, E.D.P. Kilroy...