Word: ems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lyndon Johnson is fond of comparing himself to the Harry Truman of 1948, who won an upset victory with a rip-roaring "give-'em-hell" campaign. Johnson's opponents prefer to compare him to the Truman of 1952, who decided not to run again in the midst of an unpopular war. Neither analogy quite fits. The fact is that the 1968 campaign is shaping up as a race like none before...
Even after all these years, Eddie Rickenbacker, 77, the World War I flying ace, still has the itchiest trigger finger in the West. Latest target: hippies. "I love 'em like a rattlesnake," Cap'n Eddie said at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington. "If I had my way I'd give draft-card burners a good lashing and a good haircut; I would give beatniks the same, and get a good old-fashioned horse-curry brush and give 'em a good bang. I'd put these odds and ends out in front in Viet...
...most recent issue, The New Journal introduced a genre which it calls a magazine "screenplay." Thirty-eight little photographs are spread over four Journal pages, with the text of a one-act farce interspersed, so that when we read: "Three toes! Count 'em! Three toes the guy's got missing!", we see a man on his knees holding up three fingers and peering at a foot that juts into the photograph. Or when the businessman who happens to have his foot stuck in the sidewalk says to himself, in Oral Roberts style, "Take up thy foot and WALK...
...communicate better. The advice was for him to try to talk to the nation the way he talks to small groups in the privacy of his office. Judging from the congratulatory telegrams that flowed to the White House-including one that said, "Good for you, Mr. President. Give 'em H."-it worked...
Princeton managed to match that tally five minutes later on a 60-yard march, capped by tailback Dick Bracken's 2-yard smash around end, but after the first quarter Yale left 'em in the dust...