Word: mccalls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might call it PAUSE-for Perplexed and Uncommitted State Executives, said Oregon's Governor Tom McCall, chuckling over his own acronym. Whatever he called it, McCall's proposed society of Republican Governors was intended as a device to keep the party's options open on next year's presidential nominees...
...they should all meticulously refrain from supporting any of the potential contenders until, after "continual pulse feeling," they could all move "in concert toward selection of the Republican who has the best chance of victory next year." If the Governors were thus able to unite behind one man, concluded McCall, their choice would "almost certainly" carry the 1968 G.O.P. convention...
Radcliffe, debunked in McCall's magazine a month ago as the college with the least attractive girls in the nation, has bounced back from this blow and will be featured in the July issue of Mademoiselle...
With that stand-off the matter rests, while the Pope ponders majority and minority reports from his special commission on marriage and birth control. Meanwhile, pressure for action rises from such prominent laymen as Clare Boothe Luce, who in the February McCall's equated the rhythm method's calendar watching with "checked-off love and clocked-out continence...
...third major project as a reporter for McCall's, Lynda Bird Johnson, 23, surveyed U.S. collegiate patois and produced a "Glossary of Campus Slang-How to Tell What in the World the Younger Generation Is Talking About." It's a little hard to tell what in the world Lynda is talking about, since at least 40 of the 55 terms in the glossary are almost old enough to be in the Oxford English Dictionary: "Cool it," "bug out," "put on," "stay loose." Lynda did uncover one fairly recondite turn of phrase. To "turn your E.B. up to Mother...