Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main thrust of the campaign, Miss Giese said, will be to increase student participation in the fund raising, canvassing, and letter-writing to Congressmen...
...Crimson is expected to roll up its ninth victory of the campaign against the winless Elis and gain a probable third-place tie in the Ivy League, its highest finish since the League was formed...
...many Frenchmen by declaring that he understood why the students wanted more say in their affairs. Last week Richard Nixon (who, ironically, was about to visit De Gaulle) took a very different approach toward campus disorders in the U.S. Despite his trouble establishing rapport with young Americans during his campaign, the President tackled dissident students head on. In a publicly released letter, he lambasted demonstrators in general, giving no hint of any distinction between their valid and invalid aims...
That such a union should occur first in Texas came as a bit of a surprise, considering that John F. Kennedy had to defend his Catholicism before skeptical Protestant ministers in Houston during the 1960 presidential campaign. But many of those clergymen were Southern Baptists, who do not belong to the Texas Council of Churches, although they attended the founding ceremonies as observers. As it happened, the only picket line formed was for a social, not a religious protest; it consisted of some 80 Mexican-Americans, who were angered at the sudden dismissal of a popular minister who had been...
...overextended himself, as he did in 1961 when he almost lost control of his company. Last year Ling borrowed $900 million to snare Jones & Laughlin, National Car Rental, and Braniff Airways whose latest advertising campaign shows odd couples flying high. He tried to refinance part of that debt last fall, but investors spurned his efforts. Ling scoffs at the doubters. "This is just the year to kick conglomerates," he says. He planned to sell off a small slice of Braniff, most of National Car Rental and perhaps a few other securities to raise all the funds that he said...