Word: ems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit's Cadillac Square in 1948 that Harry Truman launched his furiously partisan "give-'em-hell" campaign. It was there in 1960 that John F. Kennedy set the tone of his campaign with a passionately partisan pitch for labors vote. And it was there that Lyndon Johnson went last week to begin his campaign-with a speech that was about as partisan as custard...
Irritating Inconsistencies. Perhaps the most irritating and confusing aspect of the excise taxes-to seller and buyer alike-is the grand inconsistencies that pepper them. Radio tubes are taxed but not transistors, furs but not knock-'em-dead $3,000 evening dresses, aviation gasoline but not jet fuel. Many items that were initially taxed as luxuries have become the necessities of a newer generation-refrigerators, luggage and telephones, for example...
...Teched Him Off." The enemy gunners could not hit York without wounding some of their own soldiers. And no German who peered over his gun to figure out what to do lived long enough to regret it. "Every time one of 'em raised his head, I jes' teched him off," York later explained. He fired 17 times-and 17 enemy soldiers died. Finally, German officers on the hill realized that York was virtually alone, sent eight men charging him with bayonets. York had used up all his rifle bullets, but he took out his pistol and picked...
...teach the youngsters to hit 'em where they...
...Michigan Governor George Romney invited both sides to sit down with him at the bargaining table. But Smoky was not in a negotiating mood. "Sure, it's a breakthrough," said he of his premium-pay demand. "But so were pensions a few years ago-when I got 'em here...