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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inaugural ball committee ran a contest for the official inaugural song, which was won by Bring Us Together-Go Forward Together, lyrics by Hal Hackaday. The committee turned down dozens of requests to perform from would-be entertainers all over the land, including an acrobatic group, an Illinois woman who claimed to be a coloratura soprano, and a lady from Texas who said she had shouted "Amen!" during a Nixon campaign speech. "A lot of people get the idea that this is some sort of variety show," says Assistant Ball Chairman Henry Berliner...
...White House. Nixon, Vice President Agnew and their families will watch from a heated presidential box enclosed in bulletproof glass; lesser spectators will look on from bleachers pounded together out of hundreds of miles of top-grade Douglas fir. The paraders will include 56 bands-among them the group from Nixon's old high school in Whittier, Calif.-cadets and midshipmen from the service academies, 13-year-old Vicki Cole of Deshler, Ohio, carrying her "Bring Us Together" poster on one of the 39 floats, three Lipizzaner horses, and the French Dukes drill team from Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Richard Nixon labored over his inaugural address last week, a group of three top aides headed by Attorney General-designate John Mitchell carried on with the task of screening candidates for the 6,500 jobs within the President-elect's gift. Some choices...
While many of the Nader group's charges were justified, the report's effectiveness was often diminished by overstatement and an intemperate tone. Suggesting an anti-business bias, the report called the dishonesty of companies "far more damaging to contemporary America than all the depredations of street crime." Though anything but objective, the report drew support last week from an unexpected source. The trade journal Advertising Age joined the Nader team in knocking the commission's foot dragging: "No community is well served," it editorialized, "if its fire department habitually reaches the scene after the last spark...
...determined group of Cubans intent on escaping the austerities of Fidel Castro's Cuba provided a bloody counterpoint last week to the nation's celebrations of the tenth anniversary of Fidel's reign. In the largest single escape attempt of the Castro years, 88 managed to fight their way past border guards and through the barbed wire surrounding the big U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay,* near the island's southern tip. Fifty or 60 others were left behind, killed or captured by Cuban guards...