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Word: lowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstration. Another summer of racial riots in the black ghettos seemed certain. The U.S. dollar was being brutally battered by foreign gold speculators. Not least among the factors affecting his decision was the unforeseen strength of Senators Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy in their challenge to his renomination. So low had Johnson's popularity sunk, said one Democratic official, that last-minute surveys before the Wisconsin primary gave him a humiliating 12% of the vote there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE RENUNCIATION | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...Robert Kerr, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Georgia's Richard Russell-were avowed candidates against him, and earlier that March Kefauver had embarrassingly defeated the President in the New Hampshire primary; just four months before, Truman's popularity polls had skidded to an alltime low...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: HOW H.S.T. WITHDREW | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...Bromley-Heath project is run by the Boston Housing Authority, a federally-financed state agency. To qualify for housing a family has to have a certain low level of income, and once this income ceiling is passed, a resident of the project has to move out. Thus, the project houses a reservoir of families who are incapable of independently earning a living. Over half of the 1200 families in the project have no male head, and sometimes the three or four children in the family are fathered by different men. About 50 per cent of the families in the project...

Author: By John C. Merriam, | Title: A Housing Project and a Health Clinic--From Body Counts To "Personalized Medicine" | 4/11/1968 | See Source »

...joke is funny enough often enough to sustain the picture through a series of embarrassing lapses in logic, some third-rate color photography, and sets worthy of the more outlandish oriental monster movies. Viewed with tolerance, and press passes, Planet of the Apes can be appreciated alternately as low comedy, high adventure and, at moments, serious science fiction. In other words...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Planet of the Apes | 4/11/1968 | See Source »

...Jimi didn't even have to pull his stunt of burning his guitar-though a fireman was poised in the wings, ax at the ready, in case he did. Instead, he hopped, twisted and rolled over sideways without missing a twang or a moan. He slung the guitar low over swiveling hips, or raised it to pick the strings with his teeth; he thrust it between his legs and did a bump and grind, crooning: "Oh, baby, come on now, sock it to me!" Lest anybody miss his message, he looked at a girl in the front row, cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Wild, Woolly & Wicked | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

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