Word: genes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clean for Gene...
...youth cold-shaved his chin in a Concord street to "Get Clean for Gene," while another hirsute can vasser, barred entry because of his beard by an irate housewife, borrowed a razor and tried to con vert her while depilating. Though a sign in one McCarthy headquarters proclaimed that "Strange Politics Makes Bedfellows," housing was strictly segregated by sexes (boys in a gymnasium, girls in McCarthy supporters' homes). In keeping with McCarthy's own austerity, the kids largely eschewed beer drinking, though one group of New Yorkers nearly came to grief in a Rochester bar: a local tough...
...same way we fought Johnson," growls Joel Feigenbaum, 25, a Cornell theoretical physicist. Ann Hart and a few plucky pals argue that McCarthy's issue-oriented idealism is the only answer to the nation's malaise. "We wouldn't do this cruddy work for anybody but Gene McCarthy," says Ann, who lost 18 Ibs. during her New Hampshire duty, and slept a straight 16 hours on returning to her Washington home. "We've sworn ourselves...
...peace-piped: "It's inevitable there should be political differences in a democracy, but I have a strong feeling that President Johnson has been an out standing President, and I look forward to campaigning for him in 1968." Last Jan. 30, still refusing at that point to assist Gene McCarthy's cause, Kennedy said: "I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose Lyndon Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances...
...more personal terms, events were passing him by. Kennedys are supposed to stand for courage; the antiwar parade marshaled by a lonely Gene McCarthy was trampling that profile. To be accused of being both gutless and ruthless would be too much. Gradually, he came to the chilling conclusion that if he did not move now, he would grow old in the Senate, for which he has little love, or in private life, in which he has little experience...