Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made his first, unsuccessful, try for the governorship in 1958. His opponent, John Patterson, had taken a harsher line on race, and Wallace learned a lesson. "They out-niggered me that time," he reportedly declared, "but they'll never do it again." They never have. Alabama today comes close to being George Wallace's personal satrapy, much as Louisiana was Huey Long's in the 1930s...
...year in wages and commissions and has bought his family the $27,000, two-story house that they share with his father and stepmother on the city's Far North Side. Ron, 28, has had only one vacation in the past three years. Mostly the Hoppes stick close to their home and four children. They relax by listening to their record collection of 450 LPs (Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton), watching television on a set bought with quarters saved in a giant Seagram's bottle, or taking the family tor a weekend picnic on Cedar Lake...
Hubert Humphrey, of course, has passed up no opportunity to razz Agnew about any of his gaffes and to remind voters of how close he would be to the presidency in the event of a G.O.P. victory. "Think," Humphrey demanded of audiences last week. "President Agnew and President LeMay...
...fortune than soldier, however, for he says he never carried a gun, even for personal protection in Biafra. ("I figured we had enough guns and ammo on the plane already.") He left Biafra at the end of July, after his mother died in the United States and his close call made him suspicious of the safety of the airlift's flying procedures but he wants to return there, this time for expenses only...
...dozens of children, and countless inlaws within three doors of each other, and where there is no such thing as a current issue, so strong is the feeling of a neighborhood past that impinges on it. Nobody simply exists in East Cambridge; everybody lives next to his neighbors and close to his family history...