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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is the season for TV reruns, it is perhaps fitting that the first McCarthy-Kennedy meeting left any reasonably informed citizen with the feeling that he had seen that segment somewhere before. And that he had seen a lot of better panel shows. Not an inch of new ground was broken, not a refreshing new idea voiced. Part of the problem, certainly, was the format, which called for three ABC newsmen sitting around a table in San Francisco's KGO-TV studios to pose questions, but inhibited direct dialogue between the Senators. McCarthy was particularly critical. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE NON-DEBATE | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

Duncan, a onetime merchant seaman who narrowly lost to Republican Senator Mark Hatfield in 1966, vowed early "not to descend to personalities." As Morse gained ground, however, Duncan bitterly suggested that the Senator might be waging "the first million-dollar campaign in Oregon's history." A strong supporter of the President's war policies, Duncan was robbed of his chief issue against Morse when the Paris talks started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Primaries: Wayne by a Whisker | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...Paris hostile and ready to explode, and opposition politicians closing ranks to cut him down. A lesser man might have quit; so serious was the situation that De Gaulle in fact considered it. But like his countrymen at the Marne 54 years before, he decided to stand his ground and fight. France responded, and by sheer force of will-and with some help from the French army-De Gaulle triumphed in perhaps the greatest crisis in his long service to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ONCE MORE THE MYSTIQUE | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...three new universities in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao and add smaller polytechnical institutes in two other cities. But student militants remained unimpressed, and last week several hundred demonstrators took over the schools of philosophy and letters, science, and economics at the University Madrid, threw up barricades, and held their ground for more than two hours before vacating the buildings and turning them back to the school authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: A Mood of Unease | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...concurrent 20-year terms for selling marijuana. It was the second narcotics conviction for Danny in three months: last February, he was sentenced to 22 years for selling heroin. And next week he faces a charge of robbery. Escobedo is appealing the February narcotics rap on the ground that tape recordings introduced into evidence constituted unconstitutional eavesdropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 7, 1968 | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

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