Word: kirks
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...seconds. There are so many possible permutations that one Republican Governor declares: "Every time I dream of it, I wake up screaming." Some pairings are merely whimsical: the Brotherhood Ticket of Rockefeller and Rockefeller, whose slogan could be MAKE MONEY, NOT WAR, or the Sunshine Ticket of Reagan and Kirk. Some are quite serious: Nixon and Percy, for example; indeed, some Democrats have already anticipated that combo and dubbed it MR. MEAN & MR. CLEAN...
...racial tensions by organizing a civic panel to hear Negro job grievances and working effectively to resettle over 100,000 exiles from Castro's Cuba. Last year he defeated incumbent Governor Hayden Burns in a gloves-off primary fight, but did not have the muscle to match Claude Kirk, who became Florida's first Republican Governor in 94 years...
Though Brown repeatedly urged Negroes to arm themselves, Kirk said afterward that he had not violated a two-week-old state law that imposes a two-year prison sentence for inciting a riot. Debate, said the Governor, "is our way of life. If Mr. Castro, who is only 90 miles away, comes to Florida, I'll debate with him." Asked if he thought Brown also was a Communist, Kirk borrowed one of Walter Reuther's old tag lines: "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be a duck." Nevertheless, the Governor thought...
...deflate Brown Power, the Governor suggested, is not to give Rap less TV coverage-as some have suggested-but more. Said Kirk: "Give him three hours on national TV, and then forget about...
...Editor Joseph Medill instructed the directors of the Tribune in his will: 'I hope you will always be able to remain Republican but always show good sense.' I don't think the Tribune will ever become flighty. Not so long as I am here. Not when Kirk takes over." The Trib has, however, added a sprightly fashion section called "Feminique," and in September will jointly publish a new book section with the Washington Post. Its Sunday magazine is becoming politically venturesome and occasionally thoughtful. "That magazine frightens me sometimes," says Maxwell...