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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week, TIME'S principal editors and the writers of the NATION section also flew to Miami Beach to join MacNeil, Saltonstall and other TIME reporters and helpers already on hand. There they found ready for them, in the 1,600-sq.-ft. Jade Room of the Fontainebleau Hotel, a home away from home: a complete news bureau equipped with desks, a battery of Teletype machines, wire service tickers, and a private switchboard with direct lines to key locations in the Convention Hall...
...facts." Harris argues that survey results are meaningful only if they are digested and interpreted. Each pollster has his own methods. Harris likes to reinterview some one he has already talked with, figuring that he can thus detect changes in sentiment over periods of time. Gallup, on the other hand, argues that a second interview makes a voter selfconscious, so that he gives a less accurate reflection of public sentiment...
...deer would be so "gentled," McCarthy explained to Louis Simpson, a Pulitzer prizewinning poet who wrote about McCarthy's poetry in this week's New York Times Book Review, that they would almost lick out of the President's hand. Then they would be shot, their heads mounted for famous guests, such as John F. Kennedy or Hubert Humphrey...
...April 30, 1945, and Berlin, the capital of Adolf Hitler's tottering Third Reich, was a shattered, flaming inferno. Tanks and troops of Soviet General Vasily Chuikov's Eighth Guards army had fought to within a few blocks of the Reich Chancellery. The end was clearly at hand. Some time after lunch that day, Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, retired to their suite in the Führer's underground bunker to take their lives. They left instructions that their bodies be burned...
...fighting it received an unexpected boost from President Charles de Gaulle. In a communiqué, the French government declared that the conflict should be settled "on the basis of the right of peoples to govern themselves"-the first such commitment favoring Biafra by a European nation. "This strengthens our hand at Addis," exclaimed Biafran Information Minister Ifegwu Eke. "And if the talks break down, our African friends will be prepared to take the issue to the United Nations." Only four African nations-Zambia, Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Gabon-have so far recognized Biafra. But it is entirely possible that...