Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the moment the campaign be gan in May, it was clear that only two of the original 15 registered parties had a chance. One was the Progress Party headed by Busia, 55, a sociology professor who spent much of the Nkrumah era in voluntary exile. The other was the National Alliance of Liberals (N.A.L.), led by Komla A. Gbedemah, 56, who was Nkrumah's Finance Minister until the Redeemer turned against him and forced him into exile in 1961. Sophisticated poll watchers expected a close battle. Not the local soothsayers; Busia's first name, after all, means...
Over the summer, Sam Brown, a former McCarthy campaign aide, has organized a "Viet Nam Moratorium Committee." The group is urging students and faculty across the country to boycott classes on October 15 and devote the day to demonstrating against the war. If the boycott is successful, it will be expanded each month-two days in November, three in December and so on. Separate antiwar demonstrations are planned for the streets of Chicago in October by the dominant wing of Students for a Democratic Society and by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam. Both could...
...prime rule in Matusow's anticomputer campaign is to "always let the enemies know that you are at war with them." He suggests that recipients of a computerized bill destroy the returnable portion, then mail back a check together with a note explaining what they have done and why. When paying utility bills, Matusow advises doing it promptly-but overpaying or underpaying by a penny or two. The effect, he says, is to send an unsophisticated computer into a state of hysteria...
...service that has been awaiting a final go-ahead from the Federal Communications Commission in Washington since the early 1950s. Pay-television companies would provide subscribers with a special TV-set attachment that decodes scrambled signals to bring such features as Broadway shows, operas and first-run movies. The campaign to slay the monster is led by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO to the trade) and supported by some projectionists' union locals. Legitimate theaters are not a part of the national association or its fight. Regular television stations, even though they might benefit from NATO...
Slob Area. Exhorting the Illinois chapter of NATO, Campaign Co-Chairman Henry Plitt proclaimed that "the monster can destroy every movie house in the U.S. When the marquee lights go out, it doesn't take long for the small community to become a slob area, a slum." NATO also warns that pay-TV puts traditional TV in jeopardy and "discriminates drastically against the poor...