Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have done it! I have never laughed so long and so hard as I did at your coverage of the Rowan and Martin Laugh-In [Oct. 11]. And I've never seen the program. If the program is half as funny as the article describing it, it must really be the wildest thing on the telly today...
Still, the Communist units may have pulled back merely to regroup and refit, as they have done so often in the past. Washington concentrated on an amplitude of other significant clues that a bombing pause might be in the works. There has been an extraordinary flurry of diplomatic activity in recent weeks, ranging from Peking and Paris to the Pedernales. Three weeks ago, Cyrus Vance, the No. 2 U.S. negotiator in the slow-paced Paris peace talks, flew home to confer with the President. Early last week Johnson cut short a stay at the L.B.J. ranch to return to Washington...
Haunted by the memory of 1960, Richard Nixon long ago determined to stop at some point in the 1968 campaign for a final stock taking. What was being done wrong? What could be done better? Last week his advisers from all over the country converged on Key Biscayne, Fla., for such an inventory and came up with a startling conclusion: Nothing was wrong, and hardly anything could be done better...
...Robert Kennedy's momentum. Among the gambits used was the quiet funneling of money to McCarthy headquarters via labor unions. Humphrey's organization was so sloppy or overconfident during that period that when Angier Biddle Duke sent a letter volunteering to solicit funds, as he had successfully done for Lyndon Johnson, no one in the Humphrey headquarters even took the trouble to reply...
...recent weeks things have improved. Wall Street Financiers John Loeb and Sidney Weinberg have done some strenuous pleading that has begun to pay off. Humphrey is even going after the loose change. Last week he paid a post-midnight visit to a Manhattan discotheque called Nepantha, where the younger, swingier set had paid $50 a head for the Humphrey cause. As he stood in the psychedelic lights, someone yelled: "You're beautiful, baby!" The event netted...