Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year the American Medical Political Action Committee contributed more than $2,600,000 to political candidates, most of them Republicans. Richard Nixon's campaign was one beneficiary. Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen, whose 1968 re-election campaign reportedly received $150,000, became the visible leader of the dump-Knowles drive...
...Kennedy books go on and on. Now comes a volume that seems sure to drive one former member of the clan "up the wall," as the lady involved is wont to say. "My Life with Jacqueline Kennedy" was written by Mary Barelli Gallagher, a former J.F.K. secretary, and from 1957 to 1964 one of Jackie's girls-of-all-work. As Mrs. Gallagher tells it in the first of two Ladies' Home Journal exce'rpts, Jackie 1) spent more on "family expenses" ($105,-446.14, including $40,000 for clothes) in 1961 than Jack made as President...
...practical and the monumental. Constructed of wood and stone within a 270-ft. circumference, it ranged cows and horses facing into a central core. At harvest time, wagons bearing fresh loads from the fields could enter by a separate driveway that led to the level above the stalls, then drive around the circle, distributing feed in the hayloft. A manure pit beneath the stable level permitted cow dung to fall through trapdoors and be easily carted away...
...standards of strength, durability and safety. Then any system of building which meets those standards can be accepted for use in the city. It is an inclusive rather than exclusive code. It is my feeling that we must be inclusive in an effort to explore every avenue that will drive down the cost of housing or expand the safe possible alternatives for increasing our housing stock...
...line and discover that a car wreck (corpses strewn on the bank) is the cause of the delay, they simply accelerate past; the camera's move into high-angle, giving the shot of bloody bodies and smashed cars a mood of tragedy, is ignored by the motorists who drive into the distance. The scene is a brilliant metaphor for bourgeois social relations--the stopped motorists, though unwilling to take any action (collective or individual) about their total situation, react violently when any single person tries to get ahead of them. The central fact is their enmity to each other, realized...