Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silent Hecklers. Buoyed by the response to his Viet Nam speech-including more than $200,000 in fresh contributions-Humphrey plunged into his first round of genuinely successful campaigning since the convention. Ironically, the Vice President drew his largest and friendliest crowds in the South...
...swing through the East and Midwest last week-"dangerous territory," in the words of Aide Dick Smith-he continued to draw big crowds. Some 12,000 heard him speak in Flint, Mich. The only disappointment was Chicago, where an eight-block motorcade through the Loop drew only 50,000; Nixon, by contrast, pulled at least 250,000 a month earlier. Almost everywhere there were hecklers, brandishing such signs as "If You Liked Hitler, You'll Love Wallace" and "Wallace Is Rosemary's Baby...
Progress Cost Money. Belaúnde poured money into education until, by this year, fully 25% of Peru's budget was being spent on schooling-probably the highest proportion for any country on the continent. He attempted agrarian reform and drew some 2,000,000 Peruvians, largely Indians, into Cooperación Popular projects for village improvement. Through it all, he traveled the country tirelessly...
Moreover, the whole idea of with-it books for the young can easily get out of hand. Perhaps the hacks of kiddie lit are already at work on Freedom Freak-Out: Nancy Drew Infiltrates the New Left or Our Summer Vacation: The Bobbsey Twins Win the Hearts and Minds of the Peasants, or even Black Beauty, the story of a ghetto girl who becomes the belle of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association ball...
...comic third inning started innocently enough, as second baseman Dick McAuliffe drew a walk from Card starter Ray Washburn, who had already allowed two runs in the inning before. Then the onslaught began...