Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night in 1960, Rebozo was the only outsider invited to Nixon's Ambassador Hotel suite in Los Angeles to watch returns with the family. While Nixon conferred with aides, it fell to Rebozo to comfort Pat and the girls as John Kennedy emerged the winner of a historically close race for the presidency...
...Humphrey. That way, the President reasoned, Humphrey could become majority leader, giving L.B.J. far more forceful Senate leadership and Humphrey a bigger reputation for an eventual presidential campaign of his own. It would also have spared Humphrey what was to become one of his most onerous burdens-his overly close association with an unpopular Administration. There were reports last week that Humphrey, too, had some unorthodox ideas this year about his own running mate: he wanted New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller to join him on a unity ticket. Humphrey aides denied it, insisted that the Vice President...
...possible," of the impending donnybrook. Even Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, a Maryland native, has been suggested as a possibility, but the Kennedy brother-in-law categorically disclaims interest. There are few Maryland Democrats who can honestly do the same. House Majority Leader Tom Lowe, for instance, is a close friend of Mandel's, but admits: "If Marvin falls on his face, he'll have a size-ten shoe-mine-between his shoulder blades...
...President or candidate, lest he exhibit too much bravado. "I play Russian roulette every time I get up in the morning," Robert Kennedy once remarked, "but there is nothing I could do about it." The psychiatrists urged that Presidents and presidential candidates be prohibited by law from "close contact" with crowds when a visit has been announced in advance. That is particularly urgent, they suggested, because assassinations themselves breed violent reactions in disturbed people, making other assassinations more likely...
...U.F.T., which includes 55,000 of the city's 57,000 teachers, wanted to close the schools down completely during its strike. It failed to do so. Perhaps 350,000 students were able to attend classes-either in schools that remained open or in makeshift classrooms set up on parental initiative. At least 7,500 U.F.T. members violated union orders by teaching outside of union-authorized schools. In many areas, parents physically occupied their schools to make sure they stayed open; at P.S. 84 on Manhattan's upper West Side, parents took turns guarding the doors and patrolling...