Word: deweyitis
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...week, for example, 100 white youths staged a raucous celebration of Black Panther Huey Newton's release from prison. Police ended the party with tear gas. In Oklahoma, hundreds tried to attend a banned rock festival in Turner Falls Park. Worried about "drugs, nudity, free love and lawlessness," Governor Dewey Bartlett blocked the kids with 300 National Guardsmen. In Anaheim, Calif., about 300 garishly garbed Yippies "liberated" Disneyland. Before the cops arrived, the raiders hoisted a Viet Cong flag atop a fort on Tom Sawyer's Island and yowled slogans like "Free Mickey Mouse...
...Heath drove to Buckingham Palace, kissed the hand of Queen Elizabeth II and accepted her commission to form a government, the British nation appeared stunned by what it had wrought. "Heath has done a Truman," declared the Guardian, recalling the former President's 1948 upset of Thomas E. Dewey...
...conservative meetings. He is both a Democrat and in national politics a liberal, he proudly points out, a former New Dealer whose office contains only two mementoes on the wall-a picture of John F. Kennedy '40 at his inauguration and the notorious Chicago Tribune front page which heralded "Dewey Defeats Truman" in November...
...what's happening in this country; Viet Nam isn't worth it." Most regarded the visit to Washington as a unique opportunity to get their ideas on the war across to the Government. "We're lawyers, not longhairs," said Randy Bevis, 29, a member of Thomas Dewey's law firm. "We're respectable, and I think we can get our foot in the door...
...rules they live by. Calvert thinks a regulation with no purpose should be jettisoned. Coogan tossed out the rule requiring seniors on liberty to stay within seven miles of the campus. "It didn't make much sense," he says. "Seven miles was purely arbitrary -probably how far Dewey could get down the road in his horse and buggy...