Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans would agree more heartily with that sentiment than Melvin Laird, a bright, balding Congressman from Wisconsin, chairman of the 1964 Republican Platform Committee and a man who means to write a document acceptable to all G.O.P. factions. Says Laird: "We're not writing a Goldwater platform, a Rockefeller platform, a Scranton platform or a G.O.P. Governors platform-we're writing a Republican platform...
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Wisconsin Congressman Melvin R. Laird, 1964 chairman of the Republican Platform Committee...
...picket lines of women (WE DRAW THE LINE, read the placards), was stuck with a shipment and the likelihood of few, if any, sales. Manhattan's Lord & Taylor changed its mind even before the suits arrived. "They will be sealed up immediately," said the store's president, Melvin Dawley, "and shipped to the poor." More sophisticated Western ladies snapped up models available in San Francisco stores and over the warnings of local clergymen that "nakedness and paganism go hand in hand," the first few tentative attempts at bare-breasted exposure took place. One deterrent: very few girls have...
...having to make painful election-year decisions involving war or peace, the Johnson Administration seized on the respite offered by the Reds and began softening its tough talk about intensifying the war in South Viet Nam or extending it to North Viet Nam. After Wisconsin's Republican Congressman Melvin Laird told a radio audience that "the Johnson Administration's position is to move north, and we are prepared to move north," the President told a news conference: "I know of no plans that have been made to that effect." Laird stuck to his guns, but in Hawaii, Rusk...
Lately A. & P. has started up the comeback aisle. At the cost of lower earnings, it rescinded some of the price rises. Last year it brought in a 52-year-old president, Melvin Alldredge, who, unlike Chairman lohn D. Ehrgott, 68, has worked as an A. & P. store clerk and manager. And it has begun to stock more nonfood items, from towels to toys, which carry markups as high as 42% v. only 16% for the edibles...