Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city. In his first term as Governor of Minne sota, Rolvaag seemed so ineffectual that an opinion poll last February gave him the unqualified approval of only 9% of the voters. In June he was summarily rejected even by his own Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which chose Lieut. Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith, 37, as its gubernatorial candidate. Last week, nonetheless, Rolvaag won the D.F.L. nomination for another term by a landslide...
...wasn't as if Dad couldn't spare the dough. Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 73, might have settled the matter out of his petty-cash box if he chose. But Gordon Getty, 32, a real estate investor, composer, poet and the youngest of his four living sons, felt compelled to file what he called "a friendly suit" against the old man, asking San Francisco's Superior Court to award him $7,000,000 as his share of the stock dividends accumulated by a trust fund that J. Paul's mother, Sarah Getty, had established...
...summer lecturing at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, he was besieged with offers. Frank Conniff, editor of the still unpublished World Journal Tribune, even flew over to try to recruit him. But when the critic finally made up his mind last week, his decision was not surprising: Kerr chose the New York Times...
Yearning to subject his country to the same hardships that he had endured on the Long March, Mao chose as the weapon for his campaign a new organization whose name derived from the civil war of the 1930s: the Red Guards. Originally, they were peasants who served Mao's Red army as porters and scouts. Today's Red Guards are high school and university students, often clad in military-type khaki trousers and belted jackets, and always wearing a red arm band. They seemed to be under the command of Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota...
...armored truck seemed dictated more by showmanship than necessity. True, two girls did threaten to jump off a Manhattan hotel roof in the Beatles' honor. But the girls were combing their hair while the crowds gathered, and it was taken as a sign of the times that they chose a 22nd-floor setback of the building and not the 50th floor. Clearly, Beatlemania has seen greater heights...