Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Julian Bond, who left us with at least one good memory of the Democratic convention in Chicago.
Nixon, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, became known primarily because of the Alger Hiss case, while Rogers pursued the five-percenters and saw some of them sentenced to jail. Rogers had earned so good a reputation for the way he conducted investigations that when the Democrats...
THE Spectacular of the Week, bumping such attractions as the Jonathan Winters Show and ABC's Wednesday-night movie, was the all-network, prime-time Richard Nixon Show, introducing to the nation the twelve men the President-elect has chosen to head the top Government departments. "The people will...
Enter Bobby. YIP seemed doomed. New York cops broke up the yippie invasion of Grand Central Station; kids who valued their skulls began to stay away in droves. Bobby Kennedy's entry into the 1968 presidential race, followed by Lyndon Johnson's dropout, sent yippie stock tumbling. As...
Levity and Levitation. Not for long. Yippie goings-on during the Democratic Convention in Chicago brought the movement prominence far beyond its numbers ("From four to 200,000, depending on the weather," according to Hoffman); the clubs of Dick Daley's cops, used indiscriminately on yippies, newsmen and bystanders...