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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like John Kennedy, Nixon refuses to kiss babies or wear funny hats on the campaign circuit. In contrast to Governor Romney's hyperactive hand-pumpings at street corner and factory gate, Nixon is deliberately restricting himself to broad policy speeches, delivered with a new urbanity and self-effacing if slightly forced humor, before sizable crowds. For unlike Romney, Nixon is almost too well known. After eight years with Eisenhower, his loss to Kennedy, and his disastrous defeat by Pat Brown in California, he knows he must avoid seeming stale-and a loser-in the voters' minds...
...league hoop circuit, third place Leverett challenges second-place Winthrop tonight. Eliot, on top of the standings with a 10-1 record, tackles Dudley tonight and last-place Dunster on Thursday...
Oldtime fans still talk with awe about the thundering Auto Unions that dominated the Grand Prix circuit in the late 1930s, and the howling "Silver Arrows" of Mercedes-Benz that Juan Manuel Fangio drove to victory after victory in the mid-1950s. But for a nation that once ruled the road, Germany has taken few top honors recently. Its last triumph in the 24 Hours of Le Mans came way back in 1952, and no German car has won a Grand Prix race for half a dozen years. But in Florida last week a trio of long-tailed Porsche...
Born on the Isle of Man, the Gibb brothers formed a family combo almost as soon as they could walk. The family migrated from Britain to Australia in 1958, where the brothers worked their way up the radio-TV talent-show circuit. By last February the brothers had made it to London, acquiring along the way Drummer Colin Petersen and Guitarist Vince Melouney, and a producer got them into recording studios and out into the world...
...University as a part-time pastry chef, taught in high schools for nine years before being named principal and then superintendent of the Bay City, Mich., schools. In 1957, Briggs was named superintendent of schools in Parma, Ohio, where he introduced one of the country's first closed-circuit educational TV networks and created a Russian language program that, he was able to boast, had more teachers than any university Russian department in the state...