Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Absolutely. Roosevelt kept businessmen around him like Frank Knox and Jesse Jones. Truman followed the same model. Who would be like that on the scene today? I'll be very blunt: Henry Ford II. He knows how to handle labor...
Even the most knowledgeable American pop-music fan would be hard pressed to identify Dean Reed. But in the Soviet Union, the Denver-born country-and-western singer is more popular than Frank Sinatra. His frequent concert tours of Communist countries draw S.R.O. crowds; his songs, which frequently blend Marxist-inspired lyrics with twanging strains of the Nashville sound (one big hit: War Goes On), sell in the millions. Last week the 40-year-old singer gained a new notoriety in his homeland; he turned up as the focus of the Kremlin's latest effort to get back...
...Above all," Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, has said recently, "Kennedy was a man of his times." He was a Cold Warrior in a nation that continued to be fanatically anti-communist in the early '60s. He was a liberal who argued that Green Berets were a superior and more enlightened alternative to Eisenhower's simplistically dangerous theory of massive retaliation and the bigger bang for the buck. He was a moderate who refused to push civil rights legislation through a Congress dominated by southern conservatives. He was a radical who, for the first time since Lincoln...
...election poll in Massachusetts may have been conducted with chocolate chip cookies. Vincent D'Olimpio Jr., a Hyannis baker, wrote the names of the gubernatorial candidates in icing on the cookies, allowing customers to buy their preference. Democrat Edward King had 295 cookie-buying supporters compared with Republican Frank Hatch's 287-close to the actual margin for King in the election...
This incident, related in the 1974 book The Utah UFO Display, was just one of 80 sightings of unidentified flying objects reported near the small northeastern Utah town of Roosevelt from 1965 to 1968. The book, carefully researched and written by Frank B. Salisbury, a plant physiologist at Utah State University, was seized upon by UFO buffs as still more evidence of the reality of flying saucers and visitations from extraterrestrial beings...