Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primarily responsible for coordinating this technical feat is Donald Bermingham of TIME'S News Bureau, who takes second place to none when it comes to obtaining both information and cooperation. Bermingham, a veteran of eight previous national conventions, and his staff started months ago arranging facilities for TIME people, booking rooms and, finally, producing TIME'S own directory to pivotal action centers. Still, says Bermingham, "the last few days before the convention were excruciating." Reason: typewriters are worth their weight in gold in reporter-filled Miami, but TIME'S supplier had not come through with the ordered...
...people has to want something. What do we want now? If the highest goal we can come up with is to grow a little fatter, our days as a great nation are numbered. From that standpoint, our domestic crisis might be viewed as a God-given opportunity...
...time the Democrats are in decline, taxes and living costs are up, the cities are seething, and Viet Nam has turned into the nation's longest, least popular war. The heady awareness of opportunity that infects the entire G.O.P. assemblage is a measure of the distance the party has come since the dismal post-Goldwater days. When the Republican Governors met in Denver to conduct a post mortem on the 1964 election, the party was at its nadir. It had lost the presidency by the greatest popular margin in history. The Democrats had swollen 2-to-1 majorities in both...
...week, Humphrey was greeted with such deafening boos and shouts of "Honky, go home!" that he was forced off the stage. Though aides claimed that hecklers had been hired for the occasion, the truth still was that no more than 300 or 400 Los Angeles Negroes even bothered to come in the first place...
...scores come from having to assimilate myriads of reactions and concepts and then to apply them to unseen situations and even irrelevant ones. Furthermore since the backbone or organic chemistry is synthesis one must be able to synthesize theoretically anything that comes up. This requires a photographic memory rather than understanding. For those who are taking the course for a third time all things are possible, for the novice the course is hell...