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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machine-backed candidate, and badly shook both parties. While the Republicans tried feverishly to anticipate Shapp's strategy, Democratic bigwigs belatedly sought to win the parvenu's allegiance. At a banquet in Harrisburg, ex-Governor David Lawrence, longtime Democratic kingmaker, allowed: "Crow should have been the main dish. I must admit I am eating mine." Shapp thereupon served him another portion. After the dinner, he charged-with some reason-that Lawrence's organization had "stalled" Democratic progress, and demanded-unsuccessfully-that he be given control of the machine...
...week was out, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev seemed to be ordering Gromyko back to the freezer when he issued a tough reply to Lyndon Johnson's recent appeal for better East-West relations. "If the U.S. wants to develop mutual relations," snapped Brezhnev, it must "remove the main impediment," which, in his view, is the bombing of North Viet Nam by U.S. aircraft...
...Main Street & the World
...Americana Hotel. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge would be hospitalized for logorrhea long before his train reached Bumpkinsville. The provincialism of Gopher Prairie and booster clubs, of Mencken's "booboisie" and Lewis' Babbittry, which believed that the outside world began at the end of Main Street and thought of Dante as "that Dago poet," is as dead as the America of button shoes and chicken every Sunday...
Hill and his writers had a mighty-hard coconut to crack. About as cinematic as the Honolulu telephone directory, Michener's epic was subdivided into four laboriously correlated novels that described Hawaii's four main ethnic groups (Polynesian, White, Chinese, Japanese) and presented an exhaustive social, political, religious and even geological history of the islands since the Paleolithic period. From this embarrassment of snitches, Hill & Co. selected two strong narrative threads and with them delineated a simple, impressive picture of how God-fearing but life-hating missionaries destroyed the warm brown souls they came to save...