Word: pat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, the Democrats ran notably dull campaigns in New York, Illinois, Michigan and California, committed a few grievous gaffes along the way. None was worse than a scene in the 30-minute campaign film in which Pat Brown was shown telling a little Negro girl: "I'm running against an actor ?and remember this: You know who shot Abraham Lincoln...
Pared Margins. Ronald Reagan will still be faced with Democratic majorities in Sacramento, but their margins were pared to a bare-and possibly friendlier-predominance in both houses. Even powerful Jesse Unruh, Democratic speaker of the lower house and longtime rival of defeated Pat Brown, appeared close to defeat for a time in his once-safe suburban Los Angeles district. Unruh's margin: 9,000 votes...
...Pat Migliore, center fullback in Brown's 5-2-3 alignment, is so unbeatable that Harvard's game plan is to square the ball, use the wings, and keep play out of the middle. Brown's defense was the only area hurt by graduation, but with four shutouts in its last five games it apparently has healed any wounds...
...enough legitimate material to go around, and with the Metropolitan Museum half comatose in the field of temporary exhibitions, and with the excellent Morgan Library and Asia House too small (and too specialized) to accommodate most major exhibitions, New York is no longer in a position to pat itself on the back...
...Federal Trade Commission has begun an investigation of the role stamps - as well as their trickier cousins, prizegiving promotional games - play in food prices. California's Governor Pat Brown last week promised to help the F.T.C. by sending along a new state wide study that, he says, indicates that the gimmicks cost shoppers "at least a week's groceries a year." New York City Commissioner of Markets Sam uel Kearing Jr. called for an end to stamps altogether; this, he claimed, would reduce grocery bills by 2% to 4% . Esther Petersen, President John son's special assistant...