Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convention. But even there, the Democrats were contriving to provide some suspense. Thanks to Humphrey's stumbling performance in recent weeks, doubts were multiplying about him as a candidate-and as a potential President. Rumors circulated in Chicago and Washington that if deadlock developed, delegates would draft Senator Edward Kennedy, who emerged from 21 months of seclusion to deliver an impressive speech in which he rejected the idea of retiring from public life because "there is no safety in hiding." He also vowed "to carry forward that special commitment to justice, to excellence, to courage" that distinguished his three...
Root Problems. Viet Nam overshadowed hearings on the rest of the platform. Testimony was heard from some 300 witnesses, including such disparate groups as the American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...
Inouye's peroration was a lavish tribute to the President that could sway the whole convention. McCarthy's campaign manager, Stephen Mitchell, a former Democratic national chairman, helped feed speculation about a Johnson draft when he declared: "It may be that Mr. Humphrey feels a strong presence behind him, a man on a white horse, a certain large ranch owner from Texas." Delegates from both Tennessee and Texas fanned the rumors by urging that Johnson be drafted, particularly in light of Czechoslovakia...
...Yeah, little things keep cropping back. Like an onion, you know, two days later. Warren Beatty. I shouldn't tell you this but I will-Warren Beatty had his lawyers draft a letter to Esquire, not threatening libel or anything, but asking for a correction. It had eleven points-eleven things he objected to. But the funny part is they were all stupid things, like he didn't really eat as many hot dogs as I said...
...tools to regulate prices without actually enforcing price controls." Under the French contrat de programme, for example, thousands of industrial and retail firms have signed agreements not to boost prices beyond the government-specified 3%. Even so, some price gains have already overtaken the wage increases. The cost of draft beer has risen 10% in Paris, a loaf of bread now costs 120 instead of 100 (a 20% jump), and many restaurants have increased the price of a $1.40 meal to $1.80 (a 29% rise...