Word: mates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events themselves. He engrossingly describes how he made up his mind not to run in 1964. In fact, Johnson talked about quitting up until the time he accepted the nomination. But before then, he also took the trouble to eliminate all his Cabinet members from consideration as his running mate-a move aimed at heading off Robert Kennedy as a vice-presidential candidate. It seems more likely that Johnson fully intended to run in 1964, but had to go through that ritual of being wooed, coaxed and sympathized with...
...stronger, tricky Easterlies on Sunday down at the Charles. Barbie Grand, with crew Beth Goddard, turned in the best performance of the fall in A-division. With six firsts and three seconds in her twelve races, Grant easily topped her division. In B-division Janice Stroud, with crew-mate Kathy Angell, outsailed her opponents but suffered two foul-outs, costing the team 13 points. The second foul was controversial; Stroud had finished her eighth race in second place, just ahead of MIT. The Techies subsequently protested for a rule infraction. The race committee ruled in favor of the protest despite...
Simian Sex. Rare Galápagos tortoises were coaxed to mate at the San Diego Zoo after keepers provided enough sand for them to dig their own "nests," the only place they apparently consider suitable for lovemaking. The zoo's gorillas posed another problem. Like most humans, they do not like to be the objects of spectator sex, so zoo officials constructed private rooms at a cost of $7.000. Here, too, they are still hoping for success. Meanwhile the San Francisco Zoo's gorillas have produced two babies...
...Running Mate...
...prove that he meant what he said [Sept. 27], shouldn't President Nixon endorse the eminently well-qualified Senator Ed Brooke as his running mate? And what a smashing improvement he would be over the present officeholder...