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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elections are won and lost by the people who voted for John Kennedy because they liked his wife. Elections are determined by the aggregate of all the little plans people use to decide their vote. So you can vote according to this scheme and assume that everyone else is either voting to support your plan (which is unlikely) or is voting against your plan (which is impossible...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: A Scheme | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

...importance of voting shouldn't be overplayed. But perhaps you can glean a little existential satisfaction out of the process of indicating one of your decisions. So when you do vote, the process has to have some ostensible meaning. You have to have a Grand Plan which can count towards effecting some sort of result (so your act can have meaning) and which will give some purpose to your participating in the process (so your act will have a meaning). Here...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: A Scheme | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

VOTING differently depending on what state you're in isn't as simple as it sounds. Right now the plan divides states to stop Nixon. For example, Illinois is told to go Humphrey, and Indiana for Wallace...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: A Scheme | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

...such plan calls for a participatory or cooperative price-wage system, Eckstein said, in which a three-cornered mediating board of management, labor, and government would settle disputes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Submits Report On Inflation to Humphrey | 10/29/1968 | See Source »

...people to reflect. The monument consists of seven heavy, translucent glass piers, each 10 ft. square and 11 ft. high. They will be placed on a 66-ft.-square granite pedestal designed to be built in Manhattan's Battery Park. The New York Parks Department has approved the plan in principle. When installed, the monument will allow visitors to stroll among the piers; the central pier will be open on one side and serve as a small chapel with writing incised upon the walls. The lightsome, airy cubes are designed to reflect sunlight, people, trees and even boats passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monuments: Expressing the Unspeakable | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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