Word: camping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to a Democratic strategist, the G.O.P. hopes to score victories in Dixie by telling Southerners through Agnew they can get what Wallace promises, but without Wallace. Nixon's lieutenants deny the charge, but one of them demonstrates how the two men are viewed in the Nixon camp: "Nixon is going to do the big thing. He's the knight, and this guy is the foot soldier...
...earlier record. He implied that fleeing looters ought to be shot on sight by police. He claimed that the Kerner Commission Report on ghetto rioting might actually abet further disorder. When the Poor People's Campaign arrived in Washington, he condemned the Johnson Administration for allowing the marchers to camp on public land. Those gut reactions at once neutralized his liberal image and sent him toward a place on the G.O.P. national ticket...
...state survey by TIME correspondents last week found ample justification for the pessimism that pervades the Humphrey camp. Were the election to be held now, Nixon would win handily, capturing 34 states with 328 electoral votes (needed to win: 270). Hubert Humphrey, by contrast, can be conceded only ten states, plus the capital, all of which command 121 votes. Four Deep South states, with 39 votes, belong to George Wallace, while Michigan and Pennsylvania, with 50 between them, are rated tossups. Humphrey is so far behind in the backstretch of this presidential race that he is running third in half...
Worth the Expense. Recruiting efforts were stepped up, G.S.T.'s curriculum was overhauled, and children at summer camp found themselves playing "civil war games." G.S.T.'s publication advised that East German youth "must not only be smart and sing a lot, but be able to shoot as well." The organization today is primarily a premilitary training unit, commanded by a major general and allotted $7.5 million a year...
...health and performances. With the Olympics still a month away, competing nations are trying hard to acclimatize their stars to thin air. The Russians are practicing in Mexico, the French team is going through its paces in the Pyrenees and the West Germans are heading for a training camp in Flagstaff, Ariz. It appears that there is little to worry about. Last week at Echo Summit, Calif, (alt. 7,377 ft.), where U.S. hopefuls battled it out in the final Olympic trials, track and field men put on a startling display of record breaking...