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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"It is sickening, pompous, and criminal," an unpopular speaker at an AMA convention in 1966 said, "To speak of the United States as having any kind of medical care when many people can get no care at all. Until we can give everyone some part of the product, we can...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: American Medicine Heading for Collapse. . . | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

Vindictiveness is not one of Hubert Humphrey's vices. Loquacity certainly is. During his first lecture as a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, the former Vice President got on the subject of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley. Looking back at his presidential campaign, Humphrey commented that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Of Heart and Spleen | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Reacting last week with an extraordinary public display of spleen, Daley spluttered that Humphrey had not been his personal choice for President. His preference, he said obliquely, was "the name of a former President"-though it was no secret that the mayor had held out for the unavailable Ted Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Of Heart and Spleen | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

At Sunday's meeting, the coaches decided to convene each year in March, at the NCAA District Playoffs later in the spring, and at the NCAA Coaches Convention in January.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Coaches Form Association | 3/11/1969 | See Source »

One of the stickiest problems arose when the Government-sponsored Walker Report on the violence in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention repeated the obscenities shouted at Chicago police. Ben Bradlee, editor of the Washington Post, decided at first to run the report without deleting the offensive words. "But when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: How to Deal with Four-Letter Words | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

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