Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate will be a little more conservative in dealing with federal spending and controls, civil rights, gun restrictions, crime bills, student disorders and poverty programs. The right-wing coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats, which in the past year won 80% of the votes on the issues it chose to take a stand on, will be even more effective...
HERE SHE is now, in the middle of the Notre Dame campus. "I chose Notre Dame," she says as smiling Notre Dame men mill about her singing We Shall Overcome and making the peace sign, "because to kids in The Movement it is a very symbolic place. I mean, you know, Ara Parseghian is really a kind of guru, and you know the whole campus just gives off this real sense of freedom. You can do your own thing here, and you just can't do it in the Purdue Marching Band...
...rally last week, Nixon made the best of a sticky situation by giving opponents an opportunity to criticize without heckling. He allowed 1,200 Syracuse University students to sing a ballad to counter his campaign, and even silenced his supporters who tried to interrupt them. The song the students chose was Simon and Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence, a theme that has hardly marked the 1968 campaign...
...years ago, IBM-Germany was searching for a place to set up its new headquarters. Says Assistant General Manager Manfred Wahl: "We looked at Dusseldorf in the Ruhr and at Frankfurt, but we chose Stuttgart. Our managers prefer to stay here." That kind of intangible is often enough to tip the balance in Baden-Württemberg's favor. It makes a difference to be able to look out an office window and see green hills topped by castles instead of clouds of soot...
...understandable, maybe even intended, that Wallace's performance looked unprofessional, but the miscalculation of Nixon's election eve special are harder to explain. Perhaps his staff was complacent, perhaps pig-headedly conservative. In either case they chose to offer no more during prime time than a two-hour telephone version of his tedious citizens' panel shows...