Word: folksing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirksen's father, like most folks in those parts, was a Republican through and through. He proved it by naming his first-born son Benjamin Harrison; when his wife gave him twins, he seconded the motion by naming them Everett McKinley and Thomas Reed (after the then Speaker of...
On weekends during the campaign, Dirksen tries to get home. Lugging his huge briefcase (loaded, it weighs 35 Ibs. -more than the valise with his clothing) aboard the plane, he studies as he flies. But the minute he touches foot on Illinois soil, he shows that he has not lost...
Thus it was a relief for Kennedy to take off on what White House staffers, with straight faces, called a "nonpolitical" weekend trip. In speeches in South Dakota, Colorado and California, he stuck mainly to bipartisan subjects of interest in the West: conservation and reclamation, water and power, floods and...
A brief deviationist experiment with conventional contraception devices in 1957 brought disgrace to its government promoters, partly on ideological grounds, partly because the campaign made no impact on the Chinese people. Now, party dialecticians are trying a new propaganda tack-later marriage. The government lists all sorts of advantages: health...
By cutting away all the waste-time of introductions (" . . . and now, folks, a really wonderful performer and a great human being . . ."), apologies, thank yous and goodbyes. Producer-Director Barry Shear, 39, makes room for as many as seven acts, each appreciatively longer than usual. Host Vic Damone, who sings one...