Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks since then, Humphrey has made little secret of his intentions as he sewed together an improbable coalition of big labor and industry, Northern liberals and Southern Governors. Last week, having secured the endorsements of Louisiana's moderate Governor John McKeithen-a possible running mate-and New York City's former Mayor Robert Wagner, the United Democrats for Humphrey, led by Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris and Minnesota's Walter Mondale, with Harry Truman as honorary chairman, opened up shop in Washington...
...liberal, to be sure, but he strikes many Southern Democrats as the most responsible of the three contenders for the nomination. Some who have come to regard Johnson as a traitor to his region can respect Humphrey for his consistent position. In Louisiana, Governor John McKeithen-a possible running mate-promised: "This delegation will be enthusiastically for Humphrey, and I will play a prominent role...
...Jane, while maintaining a tenuous balance between two realities, one conventional and one dreamlike, remains always rigorously disciplined with careful attention paid to continuity and (truly superb) rhythm in its editing. Coonradt instantly establishes the premise, Jane's struggle to maintain a diffuse personality against her singularly insensitive room-mate and the other girls in her dorm, with an opening shot of Jane outside which surprisingly pulls back to reveal the other girls inside. Equally powerful in its economy is Jane's first assertion: the girls run en masse upstairs and Jane follows trailing a flight behind them; we think...
...castrate Heston and reduce him otherwise to a vegetable. His ape sponsors, however, rescue him, and together they journey to a cave where McDowall claims to have unearthed evidence of a lost human culture. Evans arrives, dynamites the cave, and mercifully lets Heston go his way, complete with mute mate. But after traveling some miles down the beach, Heston discovers the Statue of Liberty buried waist-high in sand, thus revealing the great secret that the planet of the apes is dear old earth after a nuclear...
...Johnson faction, gloried in his wide-swinging dissent. But, he said, it is members of the national leadership who "divide us." Though he used the plural, the only divider he named was "the President of the United States, President Johnson." Could he reconcile with Johnson, perhaps become his running mate? "A coalition government is possible in Viet Nam," cracked Kennedy. "But I don't think it is possible here...