Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...packed into Kiel Auditorium for a McCarthy rally while 2,000 more listened outside. They cheered so fervently that they even brought a tear to the unemotional Minnesotan's eye. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden on what supporters called "M Night," another 20,000 gathered. Closed-circuit television piped his speech to 22 auditoriums through the country, where 160,000 more heard him. He faces heavy campaign debts-but the faithful that night alone pledged or contributed $2,000,000. "This is my real campaign style," said McCarthy. "I've just been giving lectures...
...came as no surprise to the Washington press corps, whose members view Broder as perhaps the nation's top political correspondent. He has earned his reputation not with flamboyance but with meticulousness. Refusing to be confined to Washington, he thrives on the grueling cross-country chicken-and-peas circuit. Day in, day out, he lives with politics. The result is bedrock grounding in the workings of U.S. politics. "I admire the professionals who stay with it," he says, "who don't lose control of themselves in emotional binges, who view politics not as a holy war between virtue...
...Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has now ruled otherwise. An IRS investigation, said that court, is the kind of hearing Congress had in mind when it provided for fees. The fact that the Robertses were being investigated is irrelevant. Result: the Robertses, who live in Hollywood, Fla., will have to be paid 10? per mile for the 20-mile trip to and from the IRS office in Fort Lauderdale. And they will get $4 a day for every day the hearing lasts. Presumably, the same balm is now available to anyone who is called in for a going-over...
...last big push for public support will be Thursday on National McCarthy Day. McCarthy will address closed circuit television audiences at rallies in "41 cities across the country," a press statement said. Commercial television (channel 56) will carry the speech in Boston...
These men cheated the Nigerian masses before in the name of free enterprise and unregulated accumulation of private wealth. Today, as they play the cocktail circuit at the seats of political reaction in Portugal, Spain and South Africa, they are once again concealing their particularistic class interests behind the tribal mask. It is not they who are dying; it is not they who are starving; it is their captive Biafran subjects...