Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon emerges with the most votes, popular and electoral, in the three-man race. Humphrey follows, but Wallace has amassed enough electoral strength to deny both men the presidency. Nixon and Humphrey refuse to bargain for Wallace's electoral votes. The election therefore goes to the House, where the Democrats have retained control of 27 state delegations. At the same time, the Senate meets to name a Vice President. There, the Democrats have retained control, 53 to 47. The rules eliminate the No. 3 candidate: out goes Curtis LeMay, the Wallace running mate. And enough Southern Democrats follow party...
Until the shooting last week, most students seemed almost as anxious as their government not to spoil the scene for the Olympic summer games that open this week. The government, after crushing the demonstrators, began rounding up student leaders. On the day following la noche triste, the International Olympic Committee decided that the games will go on, since "we have been assured that nothing will interfere with the peaceful entry of the Olympic flame, nor with the competitions that follow." Considering the students' renewed anger, that could turn out to be a hollow guarantee...
Schlatter (referring to notes): "We've got a thing that worked the other night, and I think we ought to run with it. That line from the alligator wrestling bit, 'Blow in his ear and he'll follow you anywhere.' It went through the studio like wildfire Let's keep it going. (He turns page.) The scripts are getting funnier and tighter all the time...
...like the epic hero who must follow his own destiny to its fruition, Axel carries each sequence to a definite visual and dramatic conclusion. At the outset King Sigvor, who has slain their father, invites the sons of Hamund to make peace. Axel gives us separate sequences of them dressing their wounds, bathing, and drinking together, and ends with a slow pan across all the men sleeping side by side...
...groups that follow the two dreams are as different as the dreams themselves. Paunchy suburban couples from Hartford and Los Angeles come to see Southern Hospitality. They are displeased with the increasing velocity of their modern life; and the sight of calm acres make them smile. They gladly plunk down their admission fees to see the remnants of the old days in Natchez and Richmond. They stay at hotels with names like The Plantation House, and go home convinced that heaven must be a little like the South...